Surgical cutting or division of abdominal muscles.
From Greek koilia (belly) + mys (muscle) + tome (cutting). Unlike mectomy (removal), -tomy indicates cutting or dividing tissue without complete removal.
Surgeons have two different tools in their language: '-tomy' means they cut it to access something deeper, while '-ectomy' means they actually remove it!
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