English 9

Vocabulary Unit

Dichotomy

• Example: Candidates deny any dichotomy between their promises and their deeds.

• Definition: cutting or division into two; division

Tonsillectomy

• Example: The tonsillectomy was once common to reduce the number of colds a child suffers, but today doctors are not as anxious to remove a patient’s tonsils if it can be avoided.

• Definition: Surgical removal of the tonsils

Phlebotomy

• Example: In former times, phlebotomy was used indiscriminately as treatment for practically all illnesses; early doctors thought that by getting rid of some of a patient’s blood, the “bad spirits” that inhabited it would be removed and the patient’s health would improve.

• Definition: Opening a vein to diminish the blood supply

Anatomy

• Example: You will learn about the structure of the skeleton, muscles, the heart, and the other parts of the body when you study human anatomy.

• Definition: The structure of an organism or organ; dissection of the plants, animals, or other things to study their structure; analysis

Lobotomy

• Example: Only in certain cases of extreme serious mental illness is a lobotomy to be considered.

• Definition: Brain surgery for treatment of certain mental disorders

Tomography

• Example: Because of the use of tomography, the doctors were able to locate the ruptured artery and go to surgery to try and fix it. This process was successful because doctors could isolate the problem area and ignore the rest.

• Definition: Special x-ray technique to show images of a selected plane of tissue by blurring out other planes.

Appendectomy

• Example: After complaining of stomach pain for three days, Kamika was finally admitted to the hospital and received an emergency appendectomy.

• Definition: the excision of the appendix

Trichotomy

• Example: Having been taught to share in their kindergarten class, the three young children decided a trichotomy of their bug collection would be the fairest way to divide the creatures for the summer.

• Definition: division into three parts

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Use every vocabulary word in a sentence. The word’s

sentence must demonstrate its meaning.

Tomy/Tom- cutting, operation of incision