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abbreviation

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Definition
-algia   pain  
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-asthenia   weekness  
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-desis   binding  
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-dynia   pain  
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-esthesia   sensation  
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-kinesia   movement  
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-kinesis   movement  
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-phobia   fear  
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-phonia   sound  
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-phoria   feeling, carrying  
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-cele   hernia  
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-cytosis   conditions of sells  
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-ectasia   expansion; dialation  
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-ectasis   expanding; dialating  
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-edema   swelling  
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-ema   condition  
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-emesis   vomiting  
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-iasis   pathological condition or state; presense of  
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-ism   condition, disease  
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-it is (pl. -itides)   inflamation  
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-lepsy   seizures  
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-leptic   pretending to seizures  
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-lithiasis   precesnse of stones  
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-mania   obsession; madness  
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-megaly   enlargement  
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-oma (pl.-omata)   tumor, neoplasm  
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-opia   vision  
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-opsia   vision  
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-osis (pl.-oses)   condition, state, process  
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-paresis   slight paralysis feeling of numbness and tingling  
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-pathy   disease  
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-penia   deficiency, small fewer  
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-philia   attraction; affinity for  
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-phernia   of the mind  
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-phthisis   wasting away  
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-physis   growing  
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-plegia   paralysis  
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-plegic   pretending to paralysis  
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-ptosis   falling down; dropping  
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-rrhea   to flow or discharge  
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-rrhagia   excessive bleeding ( amount or frequency )  
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-rrhexis   rupture  
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-trophic   pertaining to nutrition  
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- trophy   nutrition  
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-blast   immature, forming  
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-cidal   destroying, killing  
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-cide   destroying, killing  
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-crine   secrecting  
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-malacia   softening  
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-para   bearing  
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-parous   producing, bearing  
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-pepsia   digestion  
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-phang, -phangia   eating, devouring  
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-phagy   swallowing  
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-phasia   speaking  
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-phoresis   carrying  
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-plasia   formation, development, growth  
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-plastic   forming  
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-pnea   breath  
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-poiesis   production and formation  
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-poietic   pretending to production  
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-protein   substance the produces  
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-para   bearing  
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-poroisi   leasoning in density  
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-rrhage   deischarging heavily  
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-rrhea   flowing, aflux  
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-schisis   splitting  
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-somnia   sleep  
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-spasm   contraction  
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-stalsis   contraction  
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-steasis   stopping, constant  
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-stenosis   narrowing  
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-cyte   cell  
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-derma   skin  
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-emia   blood  
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-emic   relating to blood  
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-globin   protein  
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-globulin   protein  
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-oxia   oxygen  
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-plakia   plaque  
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-plasm   thing formed  
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-uria   urine  
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-ectomy   removal of part or all of an organ or a body part  
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-lysis   destruction of  
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-lytic   pretending to destruction  
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-ostomy   an opening to the outside of the body  
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-pexy   fixation, usually done surgically  
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-plasty   surgical repair  
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-rrhaphy   surgical suturing  
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-static,-stasis   maintaining a state  
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