Using prefixes, suffixes, and combining form to write terms
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| alb/o- | white
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| albin/o- | white
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| leuc/o- | white
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| leuk/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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| carcin/o- | cancer
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| cephal/o- | head
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| dips/o- | thirst
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| -eal | pertaining to
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| electr/o- | electricity
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| esthesi/o- | perception, feeling or sensation
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| gen/o- | beginning; origin,
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| -genic | produced by or in
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| -genesis | producing or forming
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| geront/o- | aged or elderly
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| ger/o- | aged or elderly
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| glyc/o- | sugar
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| gram/o- | to record
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| -gram | a record
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| -graph | instrument for recording
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| -graphy | process of recording
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| hist/o- | tissue
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| kinesi/o- | movement, motion
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| -kinesia | movement, motion
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| -kenesis | movement, motion
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| leps/o- | seizure
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| -lepsy | seizure
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| log/o- | knowledge, words,
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| -logist | one who studies specialist
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| -logy | study or science of
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| lip/o- | fat
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| lith/o- | stones
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| lys/o- | destruction, dissolving
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| -lysin | that which destroys
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| -lysis | process of destroying
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| -lytic | capable of destroying
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| malac/o- | soft, softening
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| -malacia | abnormal softening
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| megal/o- | large, enlarged
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| -megaly | enlargement
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| metr/o- | measure, uterine tissue
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| -meter | instrument used to measure
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| -metry | process of measuring
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| narc/o- | sleep
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| ne/o- | new
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| necr/o- | dead or death
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| onco- | tumor
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| -oma | tumor
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| path/o- | disease
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| -pathy | disease
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| phag/o- | eat, ingest
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| -phagia | eating, swallowing
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| -phagic | eating, swallowing
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| -phagy | eating, swallowing
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| phas/o- | speech
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| -phasia | speech
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| phot/o- | light
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| -plasia | formation
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| pleg/o- | paralysis
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| -plegia | paralysis
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| py/o- | pus
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| pyr/o- | fire
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| schis/o- | split,cleft
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| schiz/o- | split, cleft
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| schist/o- | split, cleft
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| -schisis | split, cleft
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| scler/o- | hard,
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| sclerosis | hardening
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| scop/o- | to examine, to view
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| -scope | instrument used for viewing
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| -scopy | process of examining visually
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| troph/o- | nutrition
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| -trophic | nutrition
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| -trophy | nutrition
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| aer/o- | air
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| blast/o- | embryonic
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| cry/o- | cold
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| crypt/o- | hidden
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| fibr/o- | fiber
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| myc/o- | fungus
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| optic/o- | vision
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| opt/o- | vision
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| orth/o- | straight, straighten
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| pharmac/o- | drugs, medicine
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| phon/o- | voice
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| therm/o- | heat
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| top/o- | position, place
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| nulli- | none
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| primi- | first
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| mono- | one
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| uni- | one
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| bi- | two
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| di- | two
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| tri- | three
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| quad- | four
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| quadri- | four
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| tetra- | four
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| hemi- | half, partly
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| semi- | half, partly
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| multi- | many
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| poly- | many
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| hyper- | excessive, more than normal
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| hypo- | beneath or below normal
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| macro- | large
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| micro | small
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| ab- | away from
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| ad- | toward
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| ante- | before
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| pre- | before
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| pro- | before
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| dia- | through
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| ecto- | out, without, away
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| ex- | out, without, away
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| exo- | out, without, away
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| epi- | above, on
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| en- (em- sometimes used) | inside
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| hypo- | beneath, under
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| sub- | beneath, under
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| inter- | between
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| intra- | within
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| meso- | middle
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| peri- | around
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| post- | after or behind
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| retro- | behind, backward
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| super- | above, beyond
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| supra- | above, beyond
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| a- | no, not, without
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| an- | no, not, without
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| anti- | against
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| 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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| in- | not, within, in, or into
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| mal- | bad
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| para- | near, beside or abnormal
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| per- | through or dry
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| tachy- | fast
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