A surgical incision into the cecum, often performed to relieve obstruction or for diagnostic purposes.
From Latin caecum (cecum) combined with Greek tome (cutting from temnein, to cut). Surgical terminology describing an incision into the cecum.
Words ending in '-tomy' always mean a surgical cut: a vasectomy cuts the vas deferens, a lobotomy cuts brain tissue, and a cecotomy cuts into the cecum—it's shorthand that surgeons use to describe exactly where they're going to operate.
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