Plural form: multiple surgical procedures involving making an incision into a hernia to access, examine, or repair it.
From 'hernio-' (hernia) + '-tomy' (cutting into), with plural '-ies.' The root '-tomy' comes from Greek and appears in thousands of surgical procedure names.
Every time you hear a medical term ending in '-tomy' like 'appendectomy' or 'vasectomy,' you're looking at a word built from that Greek root meaning 'to cut into'—it's like a universal building block for surgical terminology!
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