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-crine

A

To secrete

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-blast

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Embryonic, immature

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-drome

A

To run

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-fusion

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Coming together, to pour

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-gea

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Substance, that produces

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-lapse

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To slide, fall, sag

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-lysis

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Breakdown, destruction, separation

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-meter

A

To measure

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-mission

A

To send

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-or

A

One who

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-oxidation

A

Oxygen

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-partum

A

Birth, labour

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-phoria

A

To bear, carry, feeling

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-plasia

A

To grow

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-plasm

A

Development, formation, growth

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-Pnea

A

Breathing

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-ptosis

A

Falling, dropping, prolapse

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-Rrhea

A

Flow, discharge

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-stasis

A

Stopping, controlling

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-trophy

A

Development, nourishment

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-Algia

A

Pain

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-cele

A

Hernia

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-coccus (pl. cocci)

A

Berry-shaped bacterium

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-centesis

A

Surgical puncture to remove fluid

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-cyte

A

Cell

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-ectomy

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Excision, removal, resection

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-emia

A

Blood condition

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-genesis

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Condition of producing, forming

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-gram

A

Record

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-graph

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Instrument for recording

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-graphy

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Process of recording

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-itis

A

Inflammation

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-logy

A

Study of

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-malacia

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Softening

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-megaly

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Enlargement

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-Oma

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Tumor, mass, collection of fluid

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-opsy

A

To view

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-osis

A

Condition, usually abnormal

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-pathy

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Disease condition

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-penia

A

Deficiency

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-phobia

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Fear

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-Plasia

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Development, formation, growth

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-plasty

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Surgical repair

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-ptosis

A

Drooping falling

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-sclerosis

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Hardening

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-scope

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Instrument for visual examination

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-scopy

A

Process of visual examination

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-stomy

A

Opening to form mouth

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-therapy

A

Treatment

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-tomy

A

Incision, cutting into

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-er

A

One who

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-ia

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Condition

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-ole, -ule

A

Small

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-y

A

Condition, process

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-us

A

Structure, substance

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-um, -ium

A

Structure, tissue

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-ac, -iac, -al, -ar, -eal

A

Pertaining to

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-genic

A

Pertaining to producing

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What is a suffix?

A

Letters added to the end of the word or root

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-ism

A

Process, condition

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-type

A

Picture, classification

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-ectasis, -ectasia

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dilation, widening

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-emesis

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vomiting

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-pepsia

A

digestion

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-phagia

A

swallowing

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-ptysis

A

spitting

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-rrhage, -rrhagia

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bursting forth

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-rrhaphy

A

suture

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-spasm

A

involuntary contraction of muscles

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–stenosis

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narrowing, tightening

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-tresia

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opening