Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0077 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-rrhaphy: Suture
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The idea
The suffix rrhaphy names surgical suturing of the structure its root identifies.
In practice
Herniorrhaphy is surgical repair of a hernia by suturing.
Where people slip
Rrhaphy is the only one of the four double-r suffixes naming a procedure rather than a finding.
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