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bdellatomy.

The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The snipping off the tail of a leech engaged in sucking human blood, in order to let the blood run out of it and so increase its powers of drawing blood.

    archaic · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Irregularly formed as Ancient Greek βδέλλᾰ (bdéllă, “leech”) + -tomy (from -τομία (-tomía, “a cutting”); from τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”); the etymological spelling is bdellotomy.

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