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The Operative Bench

Endocrine surgery is almost entirely a gland root with a procedure suffix bolted on — but -ectomy, -otomy and -ostomy are three letters apart and three different operations. Build the term the surgeon actually performed, then switch benches and turn the Latin and Greek anatomy of the report into its proper plural.
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Root what the procedure was done to

Procedure suffix what was done to it

Pick a root and a suffix

The bench reports back

WaitingAssemble a procedure term or type a plural, and this panel explains what the ending you chose actually did to the word.