Introduction to the Operating Room

LESSON 2: Operating Room Personnel, Policies, and Nomenclature
 

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2-4. EXCISION PROCEDURES

a. Discussion. Excision is the cutting out of a part. The suffixes used to denote excision are as follows:

(1) --ectomy--to cut out or excise. Excisions are divided into two types--partial or subtotal excision (b, below) and complete or total excisions (c, below).

 

(2) --exeresis--to strip out. (Examples are discussed in d, below.)

b. Partial or Subtotal Excision.

(1) Resection.

 

Subtotal gastrectomy--excision of a part of the stomach.

 

(2) Biopsy.

 

Biopsy of lymph node--removal of a lymph node from a living person for examination.

 

(3) Curettage.

 

Curettage of uterus--the scooping out of retained material.

c. Complete or Total Excision.

(1) Radical excision.

 

Mastectomy, radical--removal of entire breast and axillary lymph nodes.

 

Chondrectomy--excision of cartilage.

 

(2) Obliteration (to efface).

 

Ligation of varicose veins--the lumen of the vein is closed.

 

(3) Extirpation (to "root out").

 

Tonsillectomy.

 

(4) Enucleation.

 

Enucleation of eye--removal of an entire eyeball.

 

(5) Evisceration.

 

Evisceration of eye--removal of contents of an eyeball, leaving the

sclera.

 

(6) Extraction (to draw out).

 

Extraction of lens--cataract.

d. Other.

(1) -exeresis. Removal by pulling out (stripping).

 

(2) Neuroexeresis--stripping out of a nerve.

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