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Suffixes surgical procedures

1.

-tripsy

surgical crushing

2.

-tomy

incision (cutting into tissue)

3.

-tome

an instrument used for cutting

4.

-stomy

formation of an opening

5.

-scopy

visual examination with a lighted instrument (not always surgical)

6.

-rrhaphy

suture (uniting a wound by stitches)

7.

-plasty

surgical repair

8.

-pexy

surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

9.

-lysis

process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

10.

-ectomy

excision (surgical removal or cutting up)

11.

-centesis

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid