This is the point: trichectomy would mean cutting your hair... off (in a surgical way). Trichotomy does mean haircut, it's not one of my madeupical terms! The ancient Greek word τομή means "cut" (Ï„Îμνω = to cut). If it can help, google search for pubic trichotomy or abdominal trichotomy.
I don't quite understand your invocation of the suffix 'tomy' here to indicate hair'cut'. The standard Greek suffix to indicate 'cut, excision, or surgical removal' is 'ectomy', so you would have to say 'trichectomy', not 'trichotomy'.
on edit: the point being, I think, that when hair is cut, it implies removal, as opposed to the kind of incision or dissection that 'otomy' might imply for a different body organ.
"I now live in one of the poorest places in Britain. The teenagers here have expensive haircuts, fashionable clothes and mobile phones. Most of those who are old enough have cars, which they drive incessantly and write off every few weeks." - 'Bring On The Recession', George Monbiot, 9 Oct 2007.
"In November 2005, the house sold for $126,000. The bank, which took it back last spring, is asking $59,000. The Seattle man offers $40,000.
The mayor says the lender is not desperate enough to take that big a haircut. “Not going to happen,†she says."
The New York Times, In the Central Valley, the Ruins of the Housing Bust, by David Streitfeld, August 23, 2008
This is the point: trichectomy would mean cutting your hair... off (in a surgical way). Trichotomy does mean haircut, it's not one of my madeupical terms! The ancient Greek word τομή means "cut" (Ï„Îμνω = to cut).
If it can help, google search for pubic trichotomy or abdominal trichotomy.
I don't quite understand your invocation of the suffix 'tomy' here to indicate hair'cut'. The standard Greek suffix to indicate 'cut, excision, or surgical removal' is 'ectomy', so you would have to say 'trichectomy', not 'trichotomy'.
on edit: the point being, I think, that when hair is cut, it implies removal, as opposed to the kind of incision or dissection that 'otomy' might imply for a different body organ.
See also trichotomy.
"I now live in one of the poorest places in Britain. The teenagers here have expensive haircuts, fashionable clothes and mobile phones. Most of those who are old enough have cars, which they drive incessantly and write off every few weeks." - 'Bring On The Recession', George Monbiot, 9 Oct 2007.