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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In surgery, division of the thyroid cartilage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

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  • noun surgery The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.

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Ancient Greek

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