Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun autotomy

1 sense of autotomy

Sense 1
autotomy -- (spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack)
       => removal, remotion -- (the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy")