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'.
3 Synonyms found for suffix. suffix 1778, from Mod.L. suffixum, noun use of neut. of L. suffixus fastened, pp. of suffigere fasten, fix on, from sub upon + figere fasten (see fix). The verb, in the grammatical sense, is first recorded 1778.