An operation during which the gallbladder is opened, gallstones are removed, and excess bile is drained
Robert Lawson Tait has written: 'An essay on hospital mortality' 'Case of cholecystotomy performed for dropsy of the gall-bladder due to impaction of a gall-stone' -- subject(s): Gallstones, Surgery, Gallbladder 'The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries' -- subject(s): Ovarian Diseases
the ending form is -otomy and the beginning of the word would be the part of the body being cut into. Example cholecystotomy and cholelithotomy are cutting into the gallbladder (usually to remove a gallstone).
Choledochotomy is the medical term meaning surgical incision into the common bile duct.