Medical Terminology - Surgical and Procedural Suffixes

-centesis
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-centesis
(Surgical) Puncture to withdraw fluid
-ectomy
(Surgical) Surgical Removal
-ostomy
(Surgical) Surgically create an opening
-otomy
(Surgical) Cutting into
-pexy
(Surgical) Surgical fixation
-plasty
(Surgical) Surgical Repair
-rraphy
(Surgical) To suture
-tome
(Surgical) Instrument to cut
-gram
(Procedural) Record
-graphy
(Procedural) Process of Recording
-meter(Procedural) Instrument for measuring-metry(Procedural) Process of measuring-scope(Procedural) Instrument for viewing-scopic(Procedural) Pertaining to visually examining-scopy(Procedural) Process of visually examining