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Surgery Terms
Common Prefixes, suffixes and combining forms Stedmans Skill Builders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ankyl/o | bent, crooked, stiff, fused, fixed, closed |
| auto-, aut- | self, same |
| bio | life |
| -centesis | puncture; surgical puncture to remove fluid |
| circum- | around, circular, circular movement |
| -clasia, -clasis, -clast | break, breaking |
| cry-, cry/o | cold |
| -desis | binding, stabilizing, fixation of a bone or join to, tie together; to bind, tie together |
| -ec | out, away, outside |
| -ectomy | removal of an anatomic structure, literally "to cut out"; excision, resection |
| electr/o | electric, electricity |
| -esthesia, esthes/o, esthesi/o | perception, feeling, sensitivity |
| herni/o | hernia, rupture, protrusion of a part of a structure through the tissues containing it |
| lith-, lith/o | stone, calculus, calcification |
| -lysis | dissolution (loosening) |
| mes, mes/o | middle, mean, intermediacy |
| -opsy;-opia; -opsia | vision, view of(Stedman's has excision or removal of) |
| -ostomy | artificial, nonphysiologic, or surgical opening; literally to "cut a new mouth" |
| -otomy | a cutting operation; literally "to cut into" |
| -pexy | fixation, usually surgical; to put in place |
| -plasty | surgical procedure for repair of a defect or restoration of form and/or function of a part |
| -rrhaphy | surgical suturing |
| -rrhexis | rupture |
| -scope | instrument for viewing, but meaning expanded to include other methods of examination |
| -scopy | action or activity that uses an instrument for viewing |
| -stasis | stop, stand, control; place |
| -stomy | artificial or surgical opening to form a mouth |
| sub- | beneath, below, less than normal or typical, inferior (i.e. worse) |
| sym-, syn- | together, with, joined |
| tom tom/o | to cut |
| -tome | a cutting instrument |
| -tomy | process of cutting, incision, a cutting operation |
| trans- | across, through, beyond |
| -tripsy | to crush, rubbing, crushing |
Created by:
spicygrits
on 2007-04-11