A surgical procedure involving the removal or extraction of something embedded in tissue or the body.
From Greek 'em-' (in) and 'brektós' (extracted) combined with '-tomy' (cutting or surgical removal). This is a medical term using standard Greek components.
Medical terminology often uses these Greek building blocks—doctors can combine roots they barely understand to name new procedures, which is why they invented terms before fully understanding what they were cutting out.
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