Hello and welcome to a completely new series of the zero to finals podcast, and in this series

I'm going to be going through surgery. So we're going to cover all of the different topics

in surgery covering all the different surgical specialties. And the first topic that we're going to

cover today is the basics of surgery. And as always, if you want to find written notes on this

topic, you can find them at zero to finals.com. And if you go to slash surgery slash basics,

or you can find written notes in the zero to finals surgery book, which is available on Amazon.

So let's get straight into it.

There are a number of basic definitions and concepts that are worth being familiar with and learning

before you start reading about the surgical topics or before you start a surgical rotation.

And in this section, we're going to go through some of those basic definitions and concepts.

Let's start by talking about prefixes.

Prefixes generally refer to an area of the body.

Lapro refers to the abdomen, for example, laparotomy, which is open surgery of the abdomen.

Thoracroxo refers to the chest, for example thoracotomy, which is open surgery of the chest.

Kolo refers to the colon, for example, collectomy, which is removal of the colon. Cystow refers to the bladder, for example, collectomy, which is removal of the colon.

Cisto refers to the bladder, for example, cystoscopy, which is putting an endoscopic camera

into the bladder.

Gastro refers to the stomach, for example, gastroscopy, which is putting an endoscopic

camera into the stomach. Mamo refers to the

breast, for example, mammogram, which is imaging of the breast. Masto also refers to the

breast, for example, mastectomy, which is removal of a breast.

Mayo refers to muscle, for example, myotomy, which is where the muscle tissue is cut open.

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