| COLOTOMY | • colotomy n. (Surgery, medicine) Any incisional operation on the colon. • colotomy n. (Music) The rhythmic and metric patterns of gamelan music, involving the use of specific instruments… • COLOTOMY n. a surgical incision of the colon. |
| HOMOGONY | • homogony n. (Botany) The condition of having homogonous flowers. • HOMOGONY n. the condition of having flowers with uniform stamens and pistils. |
| HOMOLOGY | • homology n. The relationship of being homologous; a homologous relationship; (geometry, projective geometry) specifically… • homology n. (Geometry, projective geometry) An automorphism of the projective plane (representing a perspective… • homology n. (Topology, algebraic topology) A general way of associating a sequence of algebraic objects, such as… |
| HOMOTONY | • homotony n. The quality of being homotonous. • HOMOTONY n. harmony of tone. |
| LOBOTOMY | • lobotomy n. A surgical operation on the frontal lobe of the brain intent on treating certain mental illnesses. • lobotomy n. The severing of the prefrontal cortex from the thalamic region of the brain. • lobotomy n. The severing of the sympathetic nerve trunk. |
| MONOGONY | • monogony n. (Obsolete) asexual reproduction. • MONOGONY n. asexual reproduction. |
| MONOLOGY | • monology n. The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. • monology n. (Rare, countable) A work consisting of a single part (As opposed to a dilogy, trilogy, etc.). • MONOLOGY n. the act of uttering a monolog. |
| MONOPODY | • monopody n. (Poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot. • MONOPODY n. a measure consisting of a single metrical food. |
| MONOPOLY | • monopoly n. A situation, by legal privilege or other agreement, in which solely one party (Company, cartel etc.)… • monopoly n. An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession. • monopoly n. The privilege granting the exclusive right to exert such control. |
| MONOSOMY | • monosomy n. A genetic disorder with the presence of only one chromosome (instead of the typical two in humans) from a pair. • MONOSOMY n. a condition of having one unpaired chromosome. |
| MONOTONY | • monotony n. Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety. • monotony n. (Mathematics) The property of a monotonic function. • monotony n. The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch. |
| NOMOLOGY | • nomology n. The study of laws. • nomology n. The study of general physical and logical laws. • nomology n. The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology. |
| OMOHYOID | • omohyoid adj. (Anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the shoulder and the hyoid bone. • omohyoid adj. (Anatomy, relational) Of or relating to the omohyoid muscle. • omohyoid n. (Anatomy) Ellipsis of omohyoid muscle.. |
| ONCOTOMY | • oncotomy n. (Surgery) The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumour, with a cutting instrument. • ONCOTOMY n. incision into a tumour. |
| OXYMORON | • oxymoron n. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together… • oxymoron n. (Loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms. • OXYMORON n. (Greek) a self-contradictory expression. |
| POMOLOGY | • pomology n. (Botany) The study of pome fruit and of the cultivation of such fruit. • pomology n. (Botany) The study of fruit in general and of the cultivation of fruit. • pomology n. A work or treatise written on this subject. |