Meaning

2 senses
  1. The dissection of a cadaver.

  2. The surgical removal of dead tissue, especially bone.

Forms

plural: necrotomies
Singularnecrotomy
Pluralnecrotomies

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
dissection of a cadaver:autopsynecropsypost mortem

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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