Surgical Procedures

Question 1

-centesis

Answer 1

surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

Question 2

-ectomy

Answer 2

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

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 (uniting a wound by stitches)

Question 6

-scopy

Answer 6

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

Question 7

-stomy

Answer 7

formation of an opening

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

aden/o

Answer 11

gland

Question 12

angi/o

Answer 12

vessel

Question 13

append/o, appendic/o

Answer 13

appendix

Question 14

bi/o

Answer 14

life or living

Question 15

blephar/o

Answer 15

eyelid

Question 16

cerebr/o, encephal/o

Answer 16

brain

Question 17

chir/o

Answer 17

hand

Question 18

col/o

Answer 18

colon or large intestine

Question 19

cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o

Answer 19

skin

Question 20

faci/o

Answer 20

face

Question 21

hepat/o

Answer 21

liver

Question 22

mamm/o, mast/o

Answer 22

breast

Question 23

muscul/o, my/o

Answer 23

muscle

Question 24

myel/o

Answer 24

bone marrow or spinal cord

Question 25

oste/o

Answer 25

bone

Question 26

pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o,pneumon/o

Answer 26

lungs

Question 27

tonsill/o

Answer 27

tonsil

Question 28

trache/o

Answer 28

trachea (windpipe)

Question 29

vas/o

Answer 29

vessel; ductus deferens

Question 30

-algia, -dynia

Answer 30

pain

Question 31

-cele

Answer 31

hernia( protrusion of all or part o an organ through a wall of the cavity that contains it.)