CHAPTER 2: SURGICAL PROCEDURES

Question 1

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

Answer 1

-centesis

Question 2

excision (surgical removal cutting out)

Answer 2

-ectomy

Question 3

process of loosening, freeing, or destroying

Answer 3

-lysis

Question 4

surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

Answer 4

-pexy

Question 5

surgical repair

Answer 5

-plasty

Question 6

suture (uniting a wound by stitches)

Answer 6

-rrhaphy

Question 7

visual examination with a lighted instrument (not always a surgical procedure)

Answer 7

-scopy

Question 8

formation of an opening

Answer 8

-stomy

Question 9

an instrument used for cutting

Answer 9

-tome

Question 10

incision (cutting into tissue)

Answer 10

-tomy

Question 11

surgical crushing

Answer 11

-tripsy

Question 12

is puncture of the amnion for removing fluid for study or administering treatment to the fetus

Answer 12

amniocentesis

Question 13

is excision of the appendix

Answer 13

appendectomy

Question 14

nonsurgical words to mean destruction or dissolving

Answer 14

hemolysis

Question 15

is plastic surgery that fasten breasts in a fixed position to correct saggging

Answer 15

mastopexy

Question 16

is plastic surgery of the breast and is done for a variety of reasons

Answer 16

mammoplasty

Question 17

means suture of blood vessels

Answer 17

angiorrhaphy

Question 18

is visual examination of very small objects with a magnifying instrument (microscope)

Answer 18

microscopy

Question 19

is a surgical procedures that forms a new opening into the trachea (windpipe)

Answer 19

tracheostomy

Question 20

is an instrument used for cutting thin sections of tissue for microscopic study

Answer 20

microtome

Question 21

is an incision of the trachea through the skin and muscles in the neck that overlie the trachea.

Answer 21

tracheotomy

Question 22

is surgical crushing of a calculus (stone)

Answer 22

lithotripsy