chapter 2 & 3 Flashcards
(198 cards)
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-er, -ist
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One who
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-iatrician
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practitioner
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-logist
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One who studies; specialist
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-ac, -al, -ic, ical
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Pertaining to
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-logic, -logical
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Pertaining to the study of
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-iatrics, -iatry
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Medical profession or treatment
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-logy
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Study or science of
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cardi/o
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heart
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crin/o
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To secrete
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dermat/o
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skin
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esthesi/o
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Feeling or sensation
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Gastr/o enter/o
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Stomach, intestines
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Ger/a ger/o geront/o
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elderly
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gynec/o
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female
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immun/o
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immune
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Ne/o Nat/o
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New, birth
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neur/o
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nerve
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obstetr/o
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midwife
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onc/o
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tumor
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opthalm/o
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eye
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Orth/o ped/o
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Straight, child (sometimes foot)
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Ot/o laryng/o
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Ear, larynx
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path/o
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disease
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ped/o
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child
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psych/o
mind
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radi/o
radiation
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rheumat/o
rheumatism
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rhin/o
nose
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ur/o
Urinary tract
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pathology
Study of diseases
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intensivists
Take care of patients in intensive care
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epidemiologist
Studies the prevention and control of disease
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-centesis
Surgical puncture to aspiate or remove fluid
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-ectomy
Excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
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-lysis
Process of loosening, freeing, or destroying
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-pexy
Surgical fixation
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-plasty
Surgical repair
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-rrhaphy
suture
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-scopy
Visual examination with a lighted
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-stomy
Formation of an opening
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-tome
An instrument used for cutting
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-tomy
incision
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-tripsy
Surgical crushing
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aden/o
gland
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angi/o
vessel
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append/o
appendix
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bi/o
Life or living
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blephar/o
eyelid
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Cerebr/o encephal/o
brain
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chir/o
hand
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col/o
Colon or large intestine
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Cutane/o, derm/a, dermat/o
skin
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faci/o
face
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hepat/o
liver
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mamm/o
breasts
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muscul/o
muscle
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myel/o
Bone marrow or spinal cord
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oste/o
bone
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pulm/o
lungs
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tonsill/o
tonsil
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trache/o
trachea
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vas/o
vessel
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-algia -dynia
pain
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-cele
hernia
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-ectasia –ectasis
Dialation
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-edema
swelling
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-emesis
vomitting
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-emia
Condition of the blood
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-ia
condition
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-itis
inflammation
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-lith
Stone or calculus
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-malacia
Soft, softening
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-mania
Excessive production
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-megaly
enlargement
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-oid
resembling
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-oma
tumor
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-osis
condition
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-pathy
disease
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-penia
defficiency
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-phobia
Abnormal fear
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-ptosis
prolapse
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-rrhage
Excessive bleeding
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-rrhea
Flow or discharge
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-rrhexis
rupture
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-spasm
Twitching, cramp
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-stasis
Stopping, conditioning
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-able, -ible
Capable of, able to
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-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic
Pertaining to
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-ase
enzyme
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-eum
membrane
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-ia, -ism
Condition or theory
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-iac
One who suffers
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-opia
vision
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-ose
sugar
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-ous
Pertaining to or characterized by
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-y
State or condition
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Adip/o
fat
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amyl/o
starch
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glyc/o
sugar
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hemat/o
blood
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lact/o
milk
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lith/o
stone
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Micro-
small
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muc/o
mucus
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prote/o
protein
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pyr/o
fire
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Mono- uni-
one
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Bi- di -
two
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Tri-
three
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Quad-
four
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Centi-
One hundred
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Milli-
One thousandth
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Diplo-
double
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Hemi- semi-
Half, partly
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Hyper-
Excessive, more than normal
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Hypo-
Under, less than normal
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Multi-, poly
many
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nulli
none
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Pan-
all
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Primi-
first
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Super, ultra-
excessive
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Ab-
Away from
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Ad-
toward
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Ante- pre-
Before in time or in place
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Circum- peri-
around
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Contra-
Against or opposed
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Dia-
through
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Ecto-
Outside, without, away from
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En-
inside
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Epi-
Above, on
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Hypo-
Beneath under
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Inter-
between
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Intra-
within
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Ipsi-
same
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Meso-
middle
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Para-
Near, besides, or abnormal
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Per-
Through or by
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Post-
After, behind
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Retro-
Behind, backward
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Super-, supra-
Above, beyond
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Sym-, syn-
Joined together
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Trans-
across
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Anti-, contra-
against
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Brady-
slow
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Dys-
Bad, difficult
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Eu-
Good normal
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Mal-
Bad, abnormal
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Pro-
Favoring, supporting
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Tachy-
fast
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Ante-
before
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Post-
After behind
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Macro-
Large or great
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Micro-
small
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a-, an-
No, not, without
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In- non-
Not or inside
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Alb/o
white
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chlor/o
green
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cyan/o
blue
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erythr/o
red
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melan/o
black
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xanth/o
yellow
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cyt/o
cell
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Gen/o
beginning
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gram/o
To record
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kinesi/o
Movement, motion
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leps/o
seizure
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lys/o
destruction
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malac/o
-malacia
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megal/o
Large, enlarged
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metr/o
measure
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path/o
disease
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phag/o
Eat, ingest
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phas/o
speech
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pleg/o
Paralysis
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schis/o
Split, cleft
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scler/o
Hard, hardening
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scop/o
To examine
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troph/o
nutrition
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aer/o
air
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blast/o
Embryonic form
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cancer/o
cancer
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cephal/o
head
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cry/o
cold
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crypt/o
hidden
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dips/o
thirst
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electr/o
electricity
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fibr/o
fiber
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hist/o
tissue
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myc/o
function
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narc/o
stupor
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Necr/o
dead
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optic/o
vision
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phon/o
voice
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phot/o
light
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py/o
pus
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therm/o
heat
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top/o
position
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trache/o
trachea
