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| ac, al, ar, ary,eal, ial, ic, ous | pertaining to
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| agra | excessive pain
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| algia | pain
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| asthenia | weakness
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| apheresis | removal
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| ase | enzyme
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| atresia | absence of a normal body opening; occlusion; closure
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| capnia | carbon dioxide
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| cele | hernia; protrusion
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| centesis | surgigal puncture to aspirate fluid
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| cidal | killing
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| clasia, clasis, clast | break
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| clysis | irrigating; washing
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| coccus (pl.cocci) | berry shaped (a form of bacterium)
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| crine | separate; secrete
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| crit | to separate
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| cyte | cell
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| desis | surgical fixation;fusion
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| dome | run; running
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| ectasis | stretching out;dislatation; expansion
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| ectomy | excision or surgical removal
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| ectopia | displacement
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| emesis | vomiting
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| emia | blood condition
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| er | one who
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| esis, iasis | condition
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| gen | substance or agent the produces of causes producing
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| genic | originating; causing
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| gram | record; x-ray film
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| graph | instrument used to record
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| graphy | process of recording; x-ray filming
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| ia | condition of diseasedor abnormal state
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| iatry | physician; treatment
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| ician | one who
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| ictal | seizure; attack
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| ism | state of
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| itis | inflammation
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| lepsy | seizure
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| lysis | loosening; dissolution;
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| lytic | destroy; reduce
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| malacia | sofening
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| mainia | madness; insane
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| megaly | enlargement
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| meter | instrument used to measure
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| metry | measurement
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| morph | form; shape
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| odia | smell
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| odynia | pain
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| oid | resembling
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| ologist | one who studies and practices (specialist)
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| oma | tumor; swelling
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| opia | vision (condition)
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| opsy | to view
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| oorhagia | rapid flow of blood
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| orrhaphy | suturing; repairing
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| orrhea | flow ecessive discharge
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| orrhexdis | rupture
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| osis | increase when used with bloodcell word roots
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| ostomy; stomy | creation of an opening
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| otomy; tomy | cut into or incision
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| oxia | oxygen
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| paresis | slight paralysis
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| pathy | disease
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| penia | abnormal reduction in number
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| pepsia | digestion
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| pexy | surgical fixation; suspension
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| phagia | eating; swallowing
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| philia; phily | love
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| phobi | abnormal fear of or aversionto specific objects or things
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| phonia | sound or voice
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| phorua | feeling
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| physis | growth
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| plasia | formation; developement;a growth
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| plasm | growth; substance; formation
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| plasty | surgical or plastic repair
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| plegia | paralysis
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| pnea | breathing
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| poieisis | formation
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| porosis | passage
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| prandial | meal
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| praxia | in front of; before
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| ptosis | dropping; sagging; prolapse
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| ptysis | spitting
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| salpinx | fallopian tube
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| sarcoma | malignant tumor
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| schisis | split; fissure
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| Sclerosis | hardening
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| scope | instrument used for visualexamination
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| scopy | visual examination
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| scopic | visual examination
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| sepsis | ifection
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| sis | state of
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| spasm | sudden involuntary muscle contration
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| stasis | control; stop
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| stalasis | contraction
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| stenosis | constriction; narrowing
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| thorax | chest
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| tocia | labor; birth
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| tome | instrument used to cut
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| tripsy | surgical crushing
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| trophy | nurishment
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| ule | little
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| uria | uring; urination
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