SUFFIXES USED IN SURGERY

• ectomy


  Excision, removal
• • centesis


  Surgical puncture
• os/tomy


  Mouth, forming an opening
• • tomy


  Incision, to cut into
• • desis


  Binding, stabilization
• pexy


  Fixation, suspension
• • osis


  Condition of
• • age


  Related to
• • iatry


  Therapy, Healing, Treatment
• • cele


  Hernia, swelling
• • ectasis


  Dilation, expansion
• gen


  Producing, beginning
• • graphy


  Process of recording
• • iasis


  Abnormal condition, formation of
• • logy


  Study of
• • meter


  Instrument for measuring
• • ometry


  Process of measuring
• • osis


  Abnormal condition
• • penia


  Decrease, deficient
• • phagia


  Eating, swallowing
• • ptosis


  Prolapse, falling, drooping
• • rrhage


  Burst forth
• • rrhea


  Discharge, flow
• • scopy


  Examination, view
• • spasm


  Involuntary contraction, twitching of a muscle