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Suffixes: Surgery-incisions
These suffixes describe types of
incisions made during surgery.
Suffix |
Meaning |
Example |
-ectomy |
removal |
mastectomy
breast |
-centesis |
tap, puncture |
thoracentesis
chest |
-stomy |
mouth, forming an opening |
colostomy
colon |
-tomy |
incision,
to cut into |
tracheotomy
trachea |
The following suffixes also describe
surgery in terms of repairing, rebuilding, reconstructing, or binding
Suffix |
Meaning |
Example |
-desis |
binding ,
stabilization |
pleurodesis
pleural membrane (lining of the lung) |
-rrhapy |
suture |
arteriorrhaphy
artery |
-pexy |
fixation,
suspension |
gastropexy
stomach |
-plasty |
formation,
plastic repair |
rhinoplasty
nose |
-clasis |
to break down,
refracture |
osteoclasis
bone |
-lysis |
loosen, free
form adhesions,
destruction |
enterolysis
small intestine |
-tripsy |
to crush |
cholelithotripsy
gallstone |
Adapted from :
Cohen, B. J. (1998). Medical terminology; An illustrated guide.
Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers.
Gyls, B.A. & Wedding, M.E. (1983). Medical Terminology: A Systems
Approach. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.
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