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one who   -er -ist  
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practitioner   -iatrician  
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one who studies; specialist   -logist  
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pertaining to   -ac -al -an -ar -ary -eal -ic -ive -tic -in, -logic -logical  
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medical profession or treatment   -logy  
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heart   cardi/o  
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to secrete   crin/o -crine  
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skin   dermat/o, derm/a, cutane/o  
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feeling or sensation   esthesi/o  
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stomach   gastr/o  
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intestines   enter/o  
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elderly   ger/a ger/o geront/o  
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female   gynec/o  
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immune   immun/o  
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new   ne/o  
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birth   nat/o  
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nerve   neur/o  
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midwife   obster/o  
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tumor   onc/o -oma  
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eye   ophthalm/o  
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disease   path/o -pathy  
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child   ped/o  
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mind   psych/o  
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radiation   radi/o  
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rheumatism   rheumat/o  
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nose   rhin/o  
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urinary tract   ur/o  
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surgical puncture to aspirate or remove fluid   -centesis  
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excision (surgical removal or cutting out)   -ectomy  
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process of loosening, freeing, or destroying   -lysis  
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surgical fixation   -pexy  
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surgical repair   -plasty  
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suture   -rraphy  
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visual examination with a lighted instrument   -scopy  
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formation of an opening   -stomy  
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an instrument used for cutting   -tome  
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incision   -tomy  
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surgical crushing   -tripsy  
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gland   aden/o  
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vessel   angi/o, vas/o vascul/o  
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appendix   append/o, appendic/o  
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life or living   bi/o  
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eyelid   blephar/o  
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brain   cerebr/o, encephal/o  
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hand   chir/o  
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colon or large intestine   col/o  
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face   faci/o  
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liver   hepat/o  
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breast   mamm/o, mast/o  
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muscle   muscul/o, my/o  
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bone marrow or spinal cord   myel/o  
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bone   oste/o  
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lungs   pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o  
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tonsil   tonsill/o  
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trachea   trache/o  
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pain   -algia, -dynia  
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hernia   -cele  
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dilation   -ectasia, -ectasis  
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swelling   -edema  
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vomiting   -emesis  
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condition of the blood   -emia  
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condition   -ia, -iasis -osis  
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inflammation   -itis  
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stone or calculus   -lith  
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soft, softening   -malacia malac/o  
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excessive preoccupation   -mania  
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enlargement   -megaly  
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resembling   -oid  
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deficiency   -penia  
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abnormal fear   -phobia  
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prolapse   -ptosis  
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excessive bleeding or hemorrhage   -rrhagia  
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flow or discharge   -rrhea  
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twitching or cramping   -spasm  
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stopping, controlling   -stasis  
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enzyme   -ase  
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membrane   -eum -ium  
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condition or theory   -ia -ism  
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one who suffers   -iac  
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vision   -opia  
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sugar   -ose glyc/o  
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pertaining to or characterized by   -ous  
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state or condition   -y  
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starch   amyl/o  
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blood   hemat/o hem/o  
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milk   lact/o  
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fat   lip/o  
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stone   lith/o  
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small   micr/o micro-  
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mucus   muc/o  
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protein   prote/o protein/o  
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fire   pyr/o  
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one   mono- uni-  
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two   bi- di-  
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three   tri-  
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four   quad- quadri- tetra-  
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one hundred or one-hundredth   centi-  
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one thousand or one-thousandth   milli-  
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double   diplo-  
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half,partly   hemi- semi-  
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excessive, more than normal   hyper-  
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beneath or below normal   hypo-  
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many   multi- poly-  
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none   nulli-  
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all   pan-  
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first   primi-  
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excessive   super- ultra-  
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away from   ab-  
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toward   ad-  
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before in time or place   ante- pre- pro-  
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around   circum- peri-  
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through   dia-  
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out, without, away from   ecto- ex- exo- extra-  
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inside   en- end- endo-  
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above, on   epi-  
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beneath   hypo- infra-  
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under   sub-  
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between   inter-  
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within   intra-  
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middle   meso- mid-  
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near, beside, or abnormal   para-  
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through or by   per-  
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after, behind   post-  
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behind, backward   retro-  
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above, behind   super- supra-  
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joined, together   sym- syn-  
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across   trans-  
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large or great   macro- mega- megalo-  
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no, not, without   a- an-  
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not or inside   in-  
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against   anti- conta-  
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slow   brady-  
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bad, difficult   dys-  
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good, normal   eu-  
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bad   mal-  
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favoring, supporting   pro-  
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fast   tachy-  
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white   alb/o albin/o leuk/0  
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green   chlor/o  
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blue   cyan/o  
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red   erythr/o  
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black   melan/o  
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yellow   xanth/o  
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cell   cyt/o -cyte  
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beginning, origin   gen/o  
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produced by or in   -genic  
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producing or forming   -genesis  
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to record   gram/o  
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a record   -gram  
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instrument for recording   -graph  
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process of recording   -graphy  
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movement   kinesi/o  
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movement or motion   -kinesia, -kinesis  
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seizure   leps/o -lepsy  
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destruction   lys/o  
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that which destroys   -lysin  
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capable of or producing destruction   -lytic  
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large, enlarged   megal/o  
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measure uterine tissue   metr/o  
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instrument used to measure   -meter  
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process of measuring   -metry  
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eat, ingest   phag/o  
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eating, swallowing   -phagia -phagic -phagy  
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speech   phas/o -phasia  
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paralysis   pleg/o -plegia  
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split, cleft   schis/o schiz/o schist/o -schisis  
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hard   scler/o  
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hardening   -sclerosis  
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to examine, to view   scop/o  
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instrument used for viewing   -scope  
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nutrition   troph/o -trophic -trophy  
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air   aer/o  
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embryonic form   blast/o  
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cancer   cancer/o carcin/o  
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head   cephal/o  
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cold   cry/o  
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hidden   crypt/o  
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thirst   dips/o  
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electricity   electro/o  
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fiber   fibr/o  
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tissue   hist/o  
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fungus   myc/o  
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stupor   narc/o  
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dead   necr/o  
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vision   optic/o opt/o  
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drugs, medicine   pharmac/o pharmaceut/i  
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voice   phon/o  
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light   phot/o  
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pus   py/o  
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heat   therm/o  
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position, place   top/o  
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trachea   trache/o  
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sound   ech/o  
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electricity   electr/o  
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emitting or reflecting light   fluor/o  
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radiant energy   radi/o  
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to cut   tom/o  
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excessive   ultra-  
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sensitivity to pain   algesi/o  
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chemical   chem/o  
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repair   plast/o  
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treatment   therapeut/o  
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poison   tox/o  
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treatment   -therapy  
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anterior   anter/o  
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posterior   poster/o  
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ventral   ventr/o  
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dorsal   dors/o  
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medial, median   medi/o  
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lateral   later/o  
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uppermost or above   super/o  
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lowermost or below   infer/o  
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nearer the origin or point of attachment   proxim/o  
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far or distant from the origin or point of attachment   dist/o  
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toward the head   cephal/o  
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toward the tail or in an inferior direction in human beings   caud/o  
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abdomen   abdomin/o  
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extremities   acr/o  
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cyst, bladder, or sac   cyst/o  
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digits   dactyl/o  
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abdominal wall   lapar/o  
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umbilicus   omphal/o  
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nail   onych/o  
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pelvis   pelv/i  
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peritoneum   periton/o  
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body   som/a somat/o  
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chest   thorac/o  
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tear, tearing, crying   dacryl/o lacrim/o  
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sweat or perspiration   hidr/o  
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water   hydr/o  
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lymph   lymph/o  
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production   -poiesis  
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substance that causes production   -poietin  
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pus   py/o  
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saliva   sial/o  
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urine   ur/o  
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clavicle   clavicul/o  
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cranium   crani/o  
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costa   cost/o  
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scapula   scapul/o  
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sternum   stern/o  
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spine   rachi/o spin/o  
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vertebrae   spondyl/o vertebr/o  
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cervical   cervic/o  
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thoracic   thorac/o  
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lumbar   lumb/o  
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sacrum   sacr/o  
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coccyx   coccyg/o  
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humerus   humer/o  
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radius   radi/o  
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ulna   uln/o  
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carpals   carp/o  
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metacarpals   metacarp/o  
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phalanges   phalang/o  
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pelvis   pelv/i  
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ilium   ili/o  
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ischium   ischi/o  
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pubis   pub/o  
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femur   femor/o  
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patella   patell/o  
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fibula   fibul/o  
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tibia   tibi/o  
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tarsals   tars/o  
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calcaneus   calcane/o  
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metatarsals   metatars/o  
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phalanges   phalang/o  
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stiff   ankyl/o  
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articulation, joint   arthr/o  
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weakness   -asthenia  
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bursa   burs/o  
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calcium   calc/i  
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cartilage   chondr/o  
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down, from, or reversing   de-  
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change or next in a series   meta-  
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tendon   ten/o tend/o tendin/o  
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aorta   aort/o  
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artery   arter/o arteri/o  
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arteriole   arteriol/o  
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yellow fatty plaque   ather/o  
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vein   phleb/o ven/o  
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venule   venul/o  
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adenoids   adenoid/o  
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neck   cervic/o  
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sameness   home/o  
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lymphatics   lymphat/o  
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spleen   splen/o  
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thrombus, blood clot   thromb/o  
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alveolus   alveol/o  
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bronchus   bronch/o bronchi/o  
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bronchiole   bronchiol/o  
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epiglottis   epiglott/o  
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larynx   laryng/o  
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lobe   lob/o  
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nose   nas/o rhin/o  
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diaphragm   phren/o  
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pleura   pleur/o  
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pharynx   pharyng/o  
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imperfect   atel/o  
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dust   coni/o  
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embolus   embol/o  
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oxygen   ox/o  
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breathing   -pnea  
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silica   silic/o  
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to breathe   spir/o  
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action or process   -ation  
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bile   bil/i chol/e  
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orange-yellow   cirrh/o  
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down, from, reversing, or removing   de-  
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sugar   glycos/o  
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appetite   -orexia  
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digestion   -pepsia  
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vagus nerve   vag/o  
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viscera   vescer/o  
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lips   cheil/o  
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teeth   dent/i dent/o odont/o  
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gums   gingiv/o  
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tongue   gloss/o lingu/o  
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mouth   or/o stomat/o  
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esophagus   esophag/o  
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stomach   gastr/o  
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intestines   intestin/o enter/o  
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duodenum   duoden/o  
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jejunum   jejun/o  
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ileum   ile/o  
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colon or large intestine   col/o colon/o  
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appendix   appendic/o append/o  
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cecum   cec/o  
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sogmoid colon   sigmoid/o  
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anus or rectum   proct/o  
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rectum   rect/o  
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anus   an/o  
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