osteotome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A medical tool used for cutting or marking bone, used in dental implantation.
  2. A kind of bone saw used in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Word forms

osteotome osteotomes

Etymology

From osteo- + -tome.

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