tenorrhaphy etymology

English word tenorrhaphy comes from English -rrhaphy ((surgery) suture.), English teno- ((medicine, anatomy) tendon.)

Detailed word origin of tenorrhaphy

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-rrhaphy English (eng) (surgery) suture.
teno- English (eng) (medicine, anatomy) tendon.
tenorrhaphy English (eng) (surgery) suture of a tendon.

Words with the same origin as tenorrhaphy

Descendants of -rrhaphy
angiorrhaphy aortorrhaphy arteriorrhaphy colporrhaphy enterorrhaphy episiorrhaphy gastrorrhaphy herniorrhaphy myorrhaphy nephrorrhaphy neurorrhaphy trachelorrhaphy
Descendants of teno-
tenoblast tenocyte tenogenic tenolysis tenotomy