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    This document describes common medical suffixes used in surgery. It outlines suffixes that indicate types of incisions like -ectomy for removal, -centesis for punctures, and -stomy for creating openings. A second group of suffixes are presented that refer to repairing, rebuilding or reconstructing tissues through operations like -desis for binding, -rrhapy for suturing, -pexy for fixation, and -plasty for plastic repair.

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    This document describes common medical suffixes used in surgery. It outlines suffixes that indicate types of incisions like -ectomy for removal, -centesis for punctures, and -stomy for creating openings. A second group of suffixes are presented that refer to repairing, rebuilding or reconstructing tissues through operations like -desis for binding, -rrhapy for suturing, -pexy for fixation, and -plasty for plastic repair.

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    Suffixes Surgery

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    This document describes common medical suffixes used in surgery. It outlines suffixes that indicate types of incisions like -ectomy for removal, -centesis for punctures, and -stomy for creating openings. A second group of suffixes are presented that refer to repairing, rebuilding or reconstructing tissues through operations like -desis for binding, -rrhapy for suturing, -pexy for fixation, and -plasty for plastic repair.

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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, tracheotomy
    to cut into trachea

    The following suffixes also describe surgery in terms of repairing, rebuilding, reconstructing, or
    binding

    Suffix Meaning Example


    -desis binding , pleurodesis
    stabilization pleural membrane
    (lining of the lung)
    -rrhapy suture    arteriorrhaphy
    artery
    -pexy fixation, gastropexy
    suspension stomach
    -plasty formation, rhinoplasty
    plastic repair nose    
    -clasis to break down,   osteoclasis
    refracture bone   
    -lysis loosen, free enterolysis
    form adhesions, small intestine
    destruction
    -tripsy to crush    cholelithotripsy
    gallstone

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