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Noun: orchotomy  or'kó-tu-mee
  1. Surgical incision into the testis to obtain material for analysis (as in cases of abnormally low sperm count)
    "An orchotomy was performed to investigate the cause of the patient's infertility"

Derived forms: orchotomies

Type of: incision, section, surgical incision