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Surgical, Diagnostic, Symptomatic, and Related  -centesis puncture arthrocentesis, pleurocentesis -ectomy excision, removal appendectomy, gastrectomy -stomy forming an opening (mouth) colostomy -tome instrument to cut osteotome -tomy incision, cut into phlebotomy  -desis arthrodesis -pexy suspension, fixation (of an organ) mastopexy -rrhaphy