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noun surgical incision into the chest walls opening up the pleural cavity
originEtymology tree English thoraco- Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)der. English -tomy English thoracotomy From thoraco- + -tomy.
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