Q&E Suffixes for surgical procedures
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- -scopy
- visual examination with a lighted instrument (this is not always a surgical procedure)
- -ectomy
- excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
- -tome
- an instrument used for cutting
- -pexy
- surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)
- -tomy
- incision (cutting into tissue)
- -plasty
- surgical repair
- -centesis
- surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid
- -stomy
- formation of an opening
- -lysis
- process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
- -tripsy
- surgical crushing
- -rrhaphy
- suture (uniting a wound by stitches)