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| bad, difficult, painful | dys-
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| excessive, increased | hyper-
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| liver | hepat/o
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| pain, suffering | -algia
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| surgical removal | -ectomy
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| abnormal condition | -osis
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| abnormal softening | -malacia
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| inflammation | -itis
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| tissue death | -necrosis
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| bleeding, bursting forth | -rrhage
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| surgical creation of an opening | -ostomy
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| surgical incision | -otomy
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| surgical repair | -plasty
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| surgical suturing | -rrhaphy
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| visual examination | -scopy
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| rupture | -rrhexis
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| abnormal narrowing | -stenosis
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| abnormal hardening | -sclerosis
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| flow or discharge | -rrhea
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| abnormal stomach condition | gastrosis
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| pertaining to the heart | cardiac
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| rupture of a muscle | myorrhexis
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| stomach pain | gastralgia
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| surgical muscle repair | myoplasty
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| neo- | new
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| arteri/o | artery
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| arthr/o | joint
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| cardi/o | heart
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| nat/o | birth
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| neur/o | nerve
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| rhin/o | nose
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| crown, coronary | cephal/o
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| fat | adip/o
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| gland | aden/o
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| constant | home/o
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| relating to the head | coron/o
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| within | endo-
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| above | epi-
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| cell | cyt/o
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| out of | exo-
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| tissue | hist/o
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| pertaining to | -ac
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| control | -stasis
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| disease, suffering and emotion | path/o
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| formative material of cells | -plasm
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| behind | retro-
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| gastr/o | stomach
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| laryng/o | larynx
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| my/o | muscle
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| nephr/o | kidney
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| hump | kyph/o
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| cartilage | chondr/o
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| crooked, bent, or stiff | ankyl/o
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| joint | arthr/o
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| cranium, skull | crani/o
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| rib | cost/o
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| spinal cord, bone marrow | myel/o
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| surgical fixation of bone or joint | -desis
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| vertebra, vertebrae | spondyl/o
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| curved | scoli/o
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| bent backward | lord/o
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| synovial membrane | synovi/o
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| bone | oste/o
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| poly- | many
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| movement, motion | kinesi/o
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| hernia, swelling | -cele
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| fibrous connective tissue | fibr/o
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| fascia | fasci/o
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| condition, state of | -ia
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| tone, tension, stretching | ton/o
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| tendon | tend/o
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| rupture | -rrhexis
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| cross-wise | oblique
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| ring-like | sphincter
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| slanted at an angle | lateralis
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| straight | rectus
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| toward the side | transverse
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| white | leuk/o
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| vein | phleb/o
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| fast, rapid | tachy-
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| clot | thromb/o
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| blood, relating to blood | hem/o
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| aorta | aort/o
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| artery | arteri/o
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| plaque, fatty substance | ather/o
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| relating to blood or lymph vessels | angi/o
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| slow | brady-
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| blood or blood condition | -emia
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| crown, coronary | coron/o
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| heart | cardi/o
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| red | erythr/o
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| vein | ven/o
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| CAD | computer assisted diagnoses
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| CHF | Congestive Heart Failure
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| MI | Myocardial Infarction
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| lymph node | lymphaden/o
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| lymph vessel | lymphangi/o
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| eat, swallow | phag/o
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| cancer | carcin/o
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| poison | tox/o
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| spleen | splen/o
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| adenoids | adenoid/o
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| tonsils | tonsill/o
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| thymus | thym/o
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| enlargement | -ectasis
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| voice box | laryng/o
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| carries air into the lungs | bronch/o
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| blue | cyan/o
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| incomplete | atel/o
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| lung | pneum/o
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| oxygen | ox/o
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| multilayered membrane | pleur/o
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| throat | pharyng/o
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| voice or sound | phon/o
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| windpipe | trache/o
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| rapid | -tachy
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| lung | plumon/o
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| chest | -thorax
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| breathing | -pnea
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| COPD | Chronic obstructive Pulmanary Disease
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| SIDS | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
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| URI | Upper respitory infection
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| SARS | Severe accute respitory syndrome
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| epiglottis | epiglott/o
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| anus | an/o
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| bile, gall | chol/o
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| large intestine | col/o
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| cecum | cec/o
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| small intestine | enter/o
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| stomach | gastr/o
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| liver | hepat/o
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| gallbladder | cholecyst/o
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| esophagus | esophag/o
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| presence of stones | -lithiasis
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| anus and rectum | proct/o
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| sigmoid colon | sigmoid/o
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| digestion | pepsia
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| pancreas | pancreat/o
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| rectum | rect/o
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| bladder | cyst/o
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| glomerulus | glomerul/o
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| hernia, tumor, cyct | -cele
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| kidney | nephr/o
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| stone, calculus | lith/o
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| setting free, seperation | -lysis
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| surgical fixation | -pexy
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| renal pelvis, bowl of kidney | pyel/o
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| droop, sag | -ptosis
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| to crush | -tripsy
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| urination, urine | -uria
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| ureter | ureter/o
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| urethra | urethr/o
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| complete, through | dia-
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| enlargement, strecthing | -ectasis
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| brain | encephal/o
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| bruise | contus/o
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| shaken together | concuss/o
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| sound | ech/o
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| to walk | ambul/o
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| to steal | klept/o
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| spinal cord | myel/o
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| head | cephal/o
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| abnormal fear | -phobia
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| mind | psych/o
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| nerve | neur/o
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| sleep | narc/o
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| stupor | somn/o
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