chapter 3.4 suffixes in surgical procedures

Question 1

-ectomy

Answer 1

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

Question 2

-lysis

Answer 2

process of loosening, feeling, or destroying

Question 3

-pexy

Answer 3

surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

Question 4

-plasty

Answer 4

surgical repair

Question 5

rrhaphy

Answer 5

suture (initing a wound by stitches)

Question 6

-scope

Answer 6

instrument used for viewing (also used in diagnostic procedures)

Question 7

-scopy

Answer 7

visual examination with a lighted instrument

not always a surgical procedure

Question 8

-tome

Answer 8

an instrument used for cutting

Question 9

-tomy

Answer 9

incision (cutting into tissue)

Question 10

-tripsy

Answer 10

surgical crushing

Question 11

-centesis

Answer 11

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid