Where does “切除” come from?

切除 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 切 — cut, sever; cutting; to cut.

切除 (Japanese): cutting off, excision, -tomy

Definitions

  1. cutting off, excision, -tomy

Ancestry of “切除”, step by step

切除 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 切

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese切cut, sever; cutting; to cut

via Japanese 除

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese除—
Every word from Japanese 切 →