Section 29/30 Flashcards
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Sin/o or sin/u
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Hollow, sinus, or tubelike passage
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Sigmoid/o
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Sigmoid colon
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Sinister/o
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Left
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Sit/u
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Place
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Skelet/o
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Bony framework of body; skeleton
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Soci/o
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Companion
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Solute/o
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Dissolved
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Solv/o
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Dissolved
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Soma-
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Body
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Somat/o
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Body
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Somn/o or somn/I
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Sleep
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-somnia
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Sleep
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Son/o
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Sound
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Spoor/o
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Sleep
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-spasm
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Sudden involuntary contraction
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Spasm/o or spasmod/o
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Sudden involuntary contraction
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Spec/I
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To look at or sort
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Specul/o
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Mirror
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Sperm/o or spermat/o
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Sperm cell or seed
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Sphen/o
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Wedge
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Sphere/o
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Round, sphere, or ball
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Sphincter/o
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Tight ball
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Sphyhm/o
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Pulse
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Spin/o
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Backbone
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Spir/o
Breathing
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Spirill/o
Little coil
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Spirochete/o
Coiled microorganism
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Spleen/o
Spleen
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Spondyl/o
Vertebra
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Spontane/o
Unexplained, voluntary
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Spor/o
Spleen
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Sput/o
Spit
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Squam/o
Scale
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-stalsis
Contraction
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Staped/o or stapedi/o
One of middle ear bones
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Staphyl/o
Cluster or bunch of grapes
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Stas/I or stat/I
Controlling or stopping
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-stasis
Controlling or stopping
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-static
Controlling or stopping
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Steat/o
Fat
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Sten/o
Narrowing or contracted
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-stenosis
Narrowing, or stricture, of a canal or duct
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Ster/o
Solid structure
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Stere/o
Solid or three-dimensional
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Steril/I
Barren
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Stern/o
Sternum
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Stert/o
To snore
