A surgical knife or instrument designed for cutting into or incising an antrum, particularly in antral surgery.
From Latin 'antrum' (cave) + Greek 'tome' (cutting, incision). A surgical instrument name following the '-tome' suffix pattern, created when surgeons developed specialized tools for sinus procedures.
Surgeons have specialized knives for almost everything, and the 'antrotome' is literally a scalpel designed just for cutting into your sinus cavities with precision.
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