Surgical Suffixes

Question 1

-clasis

Answer 1

To break; surgically fracture

Osteoclasis is performed to correct a deformity of a bone.

Question 2

-desis

Answer 2

Bind; fixation of a bone or joint

Arthrodesis fuses bones across the joint space in a degenerated unstable joint.

Question 3

-ectomy

Answer 3

Excision, removal

Append/ectomy is an excision of the appendix.

Question 4

-lysis

Answer 4

Seperation; destruction; loosening

Thromb/o/lysis: destruction or separation of a blood clot.

Question 5

-pexy

Answer 5

Fixation of an organ

Mast/o/pexy fixation of the breast

Question 6

-plasty

Answer 6

Surgical repair

Rhin/o/ plasty: surgical repair of the nose

Question 7

-rrhaphy

Answer 7

Suture

My/o/rraphy; suture of the muscle

Question 8

-stomy

Answer 8

Forming an opening (mouth)

Trache/o/stomy; forming an opening in the trachea

Question 9

-tomy

Answer 9

Incision

Trache/o/ tomy; incision of the trachea

Question 10

-tripsy

Answer 10

Crushing

Lith/o/tripsy; the crushing of a stone.

Question 11

-centesis

Answer 11

Surgical puncture

Arthr/o/centesis; to surgically puncture a joint.