Surgical Terms

xoxoxoBruce • Aug 18, 2015 8:23 pm

Sometimes it all sounds like gibberish to lay persons, so sometimes breaking it down gives us a clue.

Gravdigr • Aug 19, 2015 2:55 pm

Handy.

xoxoxoBruce • Aug 19, 2015 4:02 pm

I wonder what the suffix is for the Surgeon's kid has been accepted at an Ivy league school? :haha:

BigV • Aug 26, 2015 3:51 pm

-chronic

Lamplighter • Aug 26, 2015 5:22 pm

congenital or connate

elSicomoro • Aug 26, 2015 5:55 pm

xoxoxoBruce;936570 wrote:
I wonder what the suffix is for the Surgeon's kid has been accepted at an Ivy league school? :haha:

"There were...complications..."

sexobon • Aug 26, 2015 8:37 pm

xoxoxoBruce;936570 wrote:
I wonder what the suffix is for the Surgeon's kid has been accepted at an Ivy league school? :haha:

-CENTESIS = puncture, poke a hole in (to draw the contents out).

The procedure is called a budgetcentesis.