Medical Terminology Surgical Suffixes

-stomy : Trache/o/stomy

forming an opening (mouth)

-tomy : Trache/o/tomy

incision; incision (through the neck) to the trachea

-lysis : Thromb/o/lysis

separation, destruction; destruction of a blood clot

-centesis : Arthr/o/centesis

surgical puncture; puncture of a joint space with a needle.

-plasty : Rhin/o/plasty

surgical repair; plastic surgery (nose job)

-rrhaphy : my/o/rrhaphy

suture; suture of a muscle

-desis : Arthr/o/desis

binding fixation; fuses bones across the joint space in a unstable joint

-tripsy : Lith/o/tripsy

crushing; crushing a stone

-ectomy : Append/ectomy

excision, removal; excision of the appendix

-pexy : Mast/o/pexy

fixation (of an organ); boob job

-tome : Oste/o/tome

instrument to cut; instrument to cut bone

-clasis : Oste/o/clasis

to break, surgical fracture; surgical fracture of a bone to correct a deformity.