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-tripsy

-tripsy suffix: used to form nouns referring to a surgical procedure involving the crushing, breaking, rubbing, or pulverization of a substance (especially a calculus or stone).

Suffix

-tripsy

  1. Used to form nouns referring to a surgical procedure involving the crushing, breaking, rubbing, or pulverization of a substance (especially a calculus or stone).

Origin of -tripsy

From Ancient Greek τρῖψῐς (trîpsĭs, “rubbing, friction”) + -y, from τρίβειν (tríbein, “to rub, thresh, pound, wear out”).

Questions about -tripsy

What does -tripsy mean?
-tripsy means used to form nouns referring to a surgical procedure involving the crushing, breaking, rubbing, or pulverization of a substance (especially a calculus or stone).
What part of speech is -tripsy?
-tripsy is a suffix.

Words near -tripsy in the dictionary

  1. -traline
  2. -treme
  3. -trexate
  4. -trices
  5. -trigine
  6. -tripsy
  7. -trix
  8. -trixes
  9. -troch
  10. -tron
  11. -tronics

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