A surgical operation involving cutting or dividing cartilage tissue.
From Greek chondros (cartilage) + tome (cutting). The -tomy suffix became standard in medical terminology for surgical procedures, especially in the 19th century.
Chondrotomy is sometimes used to treat severe cartilage damage in joints, though surgeons now often try less invasive techniques first because scar tissue can form after cutting cartilage.
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