Gandhi had a straightforward concern for animals. Nonviolence includes nonviolence towards animalsâthe devotee of ahimsa (or nonviolence) âshuns to the best of his ability the destruction of the tiniest creature.â He was a lacto-vegetarian, consuming goatâs milk, but resolutely avoided meat.
You should now know that -centesis means surgical puncture to remove fluid and is used in the term 'amniocentesis'. '-desis' is a suffix meaning surgical binding or surgical fixation, and it is used in the term arthrodesis. The other suffix that can also mean surgical fixation is '-pexy'.
The word prefix contains the prefix pre- (which means before) and the root word fix (which means to fasten or place). Thus the word prefix means to place before.. Prefixation (the process of adding a prefix to a word) is a common way of forming new words in English. See Examples and Observations below. Also see: 1  Common Prefixes in English. 2  Affix. 3  Affixation. 4  Infix. 5  Inflectional Morphology.