English
hemithyroidectomy
From hemi- + thyroidectomy.
A compound of hemi- + thyroid + -ectomy + thyroidectomy
Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ‘to see’
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos ‘seeing’
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος
Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής ‘Shield-shaped’
New Latin thyreoīdēs
English thyroid
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁- ‘to cut’
Proto-Indo-European *tm̥-né-h₁-ti
Ancient Greek τέμνω ‘to cut’
Ancient Greek ἐκτέμνω ‘to cut down trees, fell, cut to shape’
Ancient Greek ἐκτομή ‘a cutting out’
English thyroidectomy
Today it means
noun The surgical removal of half of the thyroid gland.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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