rachitome
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
French [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“the spine”) + [Term?] (“to cut”).
Noun
rachitome (plural rachitomes)
- A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rachitome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)