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'.
suffix. sufÂ·fixed, sufÂ·fixÂ·ing, sufÂ·fixÂ·es. noun. An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as-ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or-s in sits. transitive verb. To add as a suffix.