Medical Terminology

Surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid

excision (surgical removal or cutting out)

process of loosing, freeing, or destroying

surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position)

surigical repair

suture (uniting a wound by stitches)

visual examination with a lighted instrument (this is not always a surgical procedure)

formation of an opening

an instrument used for cutting

incision (cutting into tissue)

surgical crushing