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Appendix A: Glossary of Prefixes, Suffixes, and Combining Forms - Q – Abbreviati

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a-   without  
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ab-   away from  
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abdomin/o   abdomen  
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-ac   pertaining to  
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acous/o   hearing  
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acr/o   extremity or topmost  
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-acusis   hearing condition  
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ad-   to, toward, or near  
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aden/o   gland  
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adip/o   fat  
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adren/o   adrenal gland  
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adrenal/o   adrenal gland  
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aer/o   air or gas  
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-al   pertaining to  
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albumin/o   protein  
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-algia   pain  
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alveol/o   alveolus (air sac)  
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ambi-   both  
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an-   without  
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an/o   anus  
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andr/o   male  
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angi/o   vessel  
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ankyl/o   crooked or stiff  
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ante-   before  
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anti-   against or opposed to  
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aort/o   aorta  
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appendic/o   appendix  
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aque/o   water  
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-ar   pertaining to  
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-arche   beginning  
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arteri/o   artery  
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arthr/o   joint  
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articul/o   joint  
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-ary   pertaining to  
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-ase   an enzyme  
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-asthenia   weakness  
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ather/o   fatty paste  
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-ation   process  
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atri/o   atrium  
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audi/o   hearing  
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aur/i   ear  
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bacteri/o   bacteria  
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balan/o   glans penis  
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bi-   two or both  
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bil/i   bile  
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-blast   germ or bud  
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blast/o   germ or bud  
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blephar/o   eyelid  
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brachi/o   arm  
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brady-   slow  
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bronch/o   bronchus (airway)  
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bronchi/o   bronchus (airway)  
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bronchiol/o   bronchiole (little airway)  
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bucc/o   cheek  
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capn/o   carbon dioxide  
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carb/o   carbon dioxide  
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carcin/o   cancer  
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cardi/o   heart  
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cata-   down  
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-cele   pouching or hernia  
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celi/o   abdomen  
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-centesis   puncture for aspiration  
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cephal/o   head  
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cerebell/o   cerebellum (little brain)  
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cerebr/o   cerebrum (largest part of brain)  
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cerumin/o   wax  
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cervic/o   neck or cervix  
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cheil/o   lip  
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chol/e   bile  
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chondr/o   cartilage (gristle)  
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chrom/o   color  
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chromat/o   color  
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chyl/o   juice  
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circum-   around  
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col/o   colon  
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colon/o   colon  
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0   0  
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0   colp/o  
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colp/o   vagina (sheath)  
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con-   together or with  
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conjunctiv/o   conjunctiva (to join together)  
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contra-   against or opposed to  
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corne/o   cornea  
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coron/o   circle or crown  
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cost/o   rib  
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crani/o   skull  
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crin/o   to secrete  
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cutane/o   skin  
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cyan/o   blue  
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cyst/o   bladder or sac  
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cyt/o   cell  
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dacry/o   tear  
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dactyl/o   digit (finger or toe)  
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de-   from, down, or not  
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dent/i   teeth  
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derm/o   skin  
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dermat/o   skin  
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-desis   binding  
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dextr/o   right or on the right side  
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dia-   across or through  
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diaphor/o   profuse sweating  
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dips/o   thirst  
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dis-   separate from or apart  
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doch/o   duct  
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duoden/o   duodenum  
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-dynia   pain  
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dys-   painful, difficult, or faulty  
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-e   noun marker  
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e-   out or away  
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-eal   pertaining to  
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ec-   out or away  
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-ectasis   expansion or dilation  
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ecto-   outside  
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-ectomy   excision (removal)  
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-emesis   vomiting  
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-emia   blood condition  
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en-   within  
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encephal/o   entire brain  
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endo-   within  
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enter/o   small intestine  
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epi-   upon  
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epididym/o   epididymis  
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episi/o   vulva (covering)  
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erythr/o   red  
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esophag/o   esophagus  
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esthesi/o   sensation  
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eu-   good or normal  
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ex-   out or away  
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exo-   outside  
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extra-   outside  
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fasci/o   fascia (a band)  
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femor/o   femur  
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fibr/o   fiber  
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gangli/o   ganglion (knot)  
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gastr/o   stomach  
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-gen   origin or production  
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gen/o   origin or production  
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-genesis   origin or production  
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gingiv/o   gum  
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gli/o   glue  
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glomerul/o   glomerulus (small ball)  
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gloss/o   tongue  
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glott/o   opening  
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gluc/o   sugar  
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glyc/o   sugar  
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gnos/o   knowing  
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-gram   record  
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-graph   instrument for recording  
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-graphy   process of recording  
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gynec/o   woman  
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hem/o   blood  
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hemat/o   blood  
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hemi-   half  
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hepat/o   liver  
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hepatic/o   liver  
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herni/o   hernia  
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hidr/o   sweat  
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hist/o   tissue  
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histi/o   tissue  
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hormon/o   hormone (an urging on)  
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hydr/o   water  
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hyper-   above or excessive  
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hypo-   below or deficient  
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hypn/o   sleep  
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hyster/o   uterus  
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-ia   condition of  
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-iasis   formation of or presence of  
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-iatrics   treatment  
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-iatry   treatment  
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-ic   pertaining to  
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-icle   small  
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ile/o   ileum  
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immun/o   safe  
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infra-   below or under  
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inguin/o   groin  
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inter-   between  
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intra-   within  
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ir/o   iris (colored circle)  
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irid/o   iris (colored circle)  
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-ism   condition of  
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iso-   equal or like  
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-ist   one who specializes in  
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-itis   inflammation  
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-ium   structure or tissue  
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P.775   0  
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0   jejun/o  
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jejun/o   jejunum (empty)  
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kerat/o   hard or cornea  
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ket/o   ketone bodies  
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keton/o   ketone bodies  
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kinesi/o   movement  
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kyph/o   humped-back  
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lacrim/o   tear  
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lact/o   milk  
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lapar/o   abdomen  
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laryng/o   larynx (voice box)  
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lei/o   smooth  
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-lepsy   seizure  
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leuc/o   white  
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leuk/o   white  
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lex/o   word or phrase  
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lingu/o   tongue  
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lip/o   fat  
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lith/o   stone  
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lob/o   lobe (a portion)  
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-logist   one who specializes in the study or treatment of  
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-logy   study of  
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lord/o   bent  
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lumb/o   loin (lower back)  
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lymph/o   clear fluid  
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-lysis   breaking down or dissolution  
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macro-   large or long  
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-malacia   softening  
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mamm/o   breast  
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-mania   abnormal impulse (attraction) toward  
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mast/o   breast  
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meat/o   opening  
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-megaly   enlargement  
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melan/o   black  
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men/o   menstruation  
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mening/o   meninges (membrane)  
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meningi/o   meninges (membrane)  
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meso-   middle  
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meta-   beyond, after, or change  
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-meter   instrument for measuring  
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metr/o   uterus  
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-metry   process of measuring  
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micro-   small  
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mono-   one  
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morph/o   form  
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multi-   many  
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muscul/o   muscle  
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my/o   muscle  
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myc/o   fungus  
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myel/o   bone marrow or spinal cord  
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myos/o   muscle  
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myring/o   eardrum  
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narc/o   stupor or sleep  
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nas/o   nose  
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nat/i   birth  
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necr/o   death  
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neo-   new  
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nephr/o   kidney  
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neur/o   nerve  
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ocul/o   eye  
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-oid   resembling  
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-ole   small  
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olig/o   few or deficient  
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-oma   tumor  
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onc/o   tumor or mass  
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onych/o   nail  
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oophor/o   ovary  
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ophthalm/o   eye  
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-opia   condition of vision  
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opt/o   eye  
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orch/o   testis (testicle)  
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orchi/o   testis (testicle)  
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orchid/o   testis (testicle)  
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or/o   mouth  
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orth/o   straight, normal, or correct  
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-osis   condition or increase  
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oste/o   bone  
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ot/o   ear  
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-ous   pertaining to  
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ovari/o   ovary  
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ov/i   egg  
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ov/o   egg  
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ox/o   oxygen  
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pachy-   thick  
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palat/o   palate  
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pan-   all  
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pancreat/o   pancreas  
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para-   alongside of or abnormal  
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-paresis   slight paralysis  
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patell/o   knee cap  
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path/o   disease  
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pector/o   chest  
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ped/o   child or foot  
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pelv/i   hip bone  
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hip bone   -penia  
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-penia   abnormal reduction  
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per-   through or by  
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peri-   around  
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perine/o   perineum  
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peritone/o   peritoneum  
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-pexy   suspension or fixation  
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phac/o   lens (lentil)  
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phag/o   eat or swallow  
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phak/o   lens (lentil)  
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pharyng/o   pharynx (throat)  
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phas/o   speech  
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0   -phil  
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-phil   attraction for  
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-philia   attraction for  
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phleb/o   vein  
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phob/o   exaggerated fear or sensitivity  
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phon/o   voice or sound  
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phor/o   to carry or bear  
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phot/o   light  
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phren/o   diaphragm or mind  
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plas/o   formation  
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-plasia   formation  
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-plasty   surgical repair or reconstruction  
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-plegia   paralysis  
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pleur/o   pleura  
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-pnea   breathing  
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pneum/o   air or lung  
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pneumon/o   air or lung  
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pod/o   foot  
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-poiesis   formation  
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poly-   many  
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post-   after or behind  
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pre-   before  
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presby/o   old age  
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pro-   before  
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proct/o   anus and rectum  
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prostat/o   prostate  
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psych/o   mind  
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-ptosis   falling or downward displacement  
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pulmon/o   lung  
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purpur/o   purple  
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py/o   pus  
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pyel/o   basin  
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pylor/o   pylorus (gatekeeper)  
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quadri-   four  
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radi/o   radius or radiation (especially x-ray)  
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re-   again or back  
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rect/o   rectum  
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ren/o   kidney  
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reticul/o   a net  
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retin/o   retina  
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retro-   backward or behind  
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rhabd/o   rod shaped or striated (skeletal)  
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rhin/o   nose  
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-rrhage   to burst forth  
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-rrhagia   to burst forth  
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-rrhaphy   suture  
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-rrhea   discharge  
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-rrhexis   rupture  
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salping/o   uterine (fallopian) tube or eustachian tube  
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sarc/o   flesh  
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schiz/o   split or division  
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scler/o   hard or sclera  
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scoli/o   twisted  
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-scope   instrument for examination  
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-scopy   process of examination  
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seb/o   sebum (oil)  
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semi-   half  
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sial/o   saliva  
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sigmoid/o   sigmoid colon  
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sinistr/o   left or on the left side  
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sinus/o   hollow (cavity)  
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somat/o   body  
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somn/o   sleep  
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somn/i   sleep  
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son/o   sound  
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-spasm   involuntary contraction  
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sperm/o   sperm (seed)  
🗑
   
🗑
spermat/o   sperm (seed)  
🗑
   
🗑
sphygm/o   pulse  
🗑
   
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spin/o   spine (thorn)  
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🗑
spir/o   breathing  
🗑
   
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splen/o   spleen  
🗑
   
🗑
spondyl/o   vertebra  
🗑
   
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squam/o   scale  
🗑
   
🗑
-stasis   stop or stand  
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steat/o   fat  
🗑
   
🗑
sten/o   narrow  
🗑
   
🗑
stere/o   three-dimensional or solid  
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stern/o   sternum (breastbone)  
🗑
   
🗑
steth/o   chest  
🗑
   
🗑
stomat/o   mouth  
🗑
   
🗑
-stomy   creation of an opening  
🗑
   
🗑
sub-   below or under  
🗑
   
🗑
super-   above or excessive  
🗑
   
🗑
supra-   above or excessive  
🗑
   
🗑
sym-   together or with  
🗑
   
🗑
syn-   together or with  
🗑
   
🗑
tachy-   fast  
🗑
   
🗑
tax/o   order or coordination  
🗑
   
🗑
ten/o   tendon (to stretch)  
🗑
   
🗑
tend/o   tendon (to stretch)  
🗑
   
🗑
tendin/o   tendon (to stretch)  
🗑
   
🗑
test/o   testis (testicle)  
🗑
   
🗑
thalam/o   thalamus (a room)  
🗑
   
🗑
thorac/o   chest  
🗑
   
🗑
thromb/o   clot  
🗑
   
🗑
thym/o   thymus gland or mind  
🗑
   
🗑
thyr/o   thyroid gland (shield)  
🗑
   
🗑
thyroid/o   thyroid gland (shield)  
🗑
   
🗑
-tic   pertaining to  
🗑
   
🗑
toc/o   labor  
🗑
   
🗑
tom/o   to cut  
🗑
   
🗑
-tomy   incision  
🗑
   
🗑
ton/o   tone or tension  
🗑
   
🗑
tonsill/o   tonsil  
🗑
   
🗑
top/o   place  
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
0   tox/o  
🗑
tox/o   poison  
🗑
   
🗑
toxic/o   poison  
🗑
   
🗑
trache/o   trachea (windpipe)  
🗑
   
🗑
trans-   across or through  
🗑
   
🗑
tri-   three  
🗑
   
🗑
trich/o   hair  
🗑
   
🗑
-tripsy   crushing  
🗑
   
🗑
troph/o   nourishment or development  
🗑
   
🗑
tympan/o   eardrum  
🗑
   
🗑
-ula   small  
🗑
   
🗑
-ule   small  
🗑
   
🗑
uln/o   ulna  
🗑
   
🗑
ultra-   beyond or excessive  
🗑
   
🗑
uni-   one  
🗑
   
🗑
ur/o   urine  
🗑
   
🗑
ureter/o   ureter  
🗑
   
🗑
urethr/o   urethra  
🗑
   
🗑
urin/o   urine  
🗑
   
🗑
uter/o   uterus  
🗑
   
🗑
uvul/o   uvula  
🗑
   
🗑
vagin/o   vagina (sheath)  
🗑
   
🗑
varic/o   swollen or twisted vein  
🗑
   
🗑
vas/o   vessel  
🗑
   
🗑
vascul/o   vessel  
🗑
   
🗑
ven/o   vein  
🗑
   
🗑
ventricul/o   ventricle (belly or pouch)  
🗑
   
🗑
vertebr/o   vertebra  
🗑
   
🗑
vesic/o   bladder or sac  
🗑
   
🗑
vesicul/o   bladder or sac  
🗑
   
🗑
vitre/o   glassy  
🗑
   
🗑
vulv/o   vulva (covering)  
🗑
   
🗑
xanth/o   yellow  
🗑
   
🗑
xer/o   dry  
🗑
   
🗑
-y   condition or process of  
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
abnormal   para-  
🗑
   
🗑
abnormal reduction   -penia  
🗑
   
🗑
above   hyper-, super-, supra-  
🗑
   
🗑
across   dia-, trans-  
🗑
   
🗑
adrenal gland   adrenal/o  
🗑
   
🗑
after   post-, meta-  
🗑
   
🗑
again   re-  
🗑
   
🗑
against   anti-, contra-  
🗑
   
🗑
air   aer/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o  
🗑
   
🗑
air sac   alveol/o  
🗑
   
🗑
airway   bronch/o, bronchi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
all   pan-  
🗑
   
🗑
alongside of   para-  
🗑
   
🗑
alveolus   alveol/o  
🗑
   
🗑
anus   an/o  
🗑
   
🗑
anus and rectum   proct/o  
🗑
   
🗑
aorta   aort/o  
🗑
   
🗑
apart   dis-  
🗑
   
🗑
appendix   appendic/o  
🗑
   
🗑
arm   brachi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
around   circum-, peri-  
🗑
   
🗑
artery   arteri/o  
🗑
   
🗑
atrium   atri/o  
🗑
   
🗑
attraction for   -phil, -philia  
🗑
   
🗑
away   e-, ec-, ex-  
🗑
   
🗑
away from   ab-  
🗑
   
🗑
back   re-  
🗑
   
🗑
backward   retro-  
🗑
   
🗑
bacteria   bacteri/o  
🗑
   
🗑
basin   pyel/o  
🗑
   
🗑
before   ante-, pre-, pro-  
🗑
   
🗑
beginning   -arche  
🗑
   
🗑
behind   post-, retro-  
🗑
   
🗑
below   hypo-, infra-, sub-  
🗑
   
🗑
bent   lord/o  
🗑
   
🗑
between   inter-  
🗑
   
🗑
beyond   meta-, ultra-  
🗑
   
🗑
bile   bil/i, chol/e  
🗑
   
🗑
bile duct   choledoch/o  
🗑
   
🗑
binding   -desis  
🗑
   
🗑
birth   nat/i, toc/o  
🗑
   
🗑
black   melan/o  
🗑
   
🗑
bladder   cyst/o, vesic/o, vesicul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
blood   hem/o, hemat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
blood condition   -emia  
🗑
   
🗑
blue   cyan/o  
🗑
   
🗑
body   somat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
bone   oste/o  
🗑
   
🗑
bone marrow   myel/o  
🗑
   
🗑
both   ambi-, bi-  
🗑
   
🗑
brain   cerebr/o (largest part of brain), encephal/o (entire brain)  
🗑
   
🗑
breaking down   -lysis  
🗑
   
🗑
breast   mamm/o, mast/o  
🗑
   
🗑
breathing   -pnea, spir/o  
🗑
   
🗑
bronchus   bronch/o, bronchi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
bud   -blast, blast/o  
🗑
   
🗑
burst forth   -rrhage, -rrhagia  
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
calculus   lith/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cancer   carcin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
carbon dioxide   capn/o, carb/o  
🗑
   
🗑
carry   phor/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cartilage   chondr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cavity (sinus)   atri/o, sin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cell   cyt/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cerebellum   cerebell/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cervix   cervic/o  
🗑
   
🗑
change   meta-  
🗑
   
🗑
cheek   bucc/o  
🗑
   
🗑
chest   pector/o, steth/o, thorac/o  
🗑
0   child  
🗑
child   ped/o  
🗑
   
🗑
circle   coron/o  
🗑
   
🗑
clear fluid   lymph/o  
🗑
   
🗑
clot   thromb/o  
🗑
   
🗑
colon   col/o, colon/o  
🗑
   
🗑
colon, sigmoid   sigmoid/o  
🗑
   
🗑
color   chrom/o, chromat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
colored circle   irid/o, ir/o  
🗑
   
🗑
condition   -osis  
🗑
   
🗑
condition of   -ia, -ism, -ium, -y  
🗑
   
🗑
contraction, involuntary   -spasm  
🗑
   
🗑
coordination   tax/o  
🗑
   
🗑
cornea   corne/o, kerat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
correct   ortho-  
🗑
   
🗑
creation of an opening   -stomy  
🗑
   
🗑
crooked   ankyl/o  
🗑
   
🗑
crown   coron/o  
🗑
   
🗑
crushing   -tripsy  
🗑
   
🗑
cut (to cut)   tom/o  
🗑
   
🗑
death   necr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
deficient   hypo-, olig/o  
🗑
   
🗑
development   troph/o  
🗑
   
🗑
diaphragm   phren/o  
🗑
   
🗑
different   hetero-  
🗑
   
🗑
difficult   dys-  
🗑
   
🗑
digit (finger or toe)   dactyl/o  
🗑
   
🗑
dilation or expansion   -ectasis  
🗑
   
🗑
discharge   -rrhea  
🗑
   
🗑
disease   path/o  
🗑
   
🗑
dissolution   -lysis  
🗑
   
🗑
division   schiz/o  
🗑
   
🗑
down   de-  
🗑
   
🗑
downward placement   -ptosis  
🗑
   
🗑
dry   xer/o  
🗑
   
🗑
duct   doch/o  
🗑
   
🗑
duodenum   duoden/o  
🗑
   
🗑
ear   aur/i, ot/o  
🗑
   
🗑
eardrum   myring/o, tympan/o  
🗑
   
🗑
eat or swallow   phag/o  
🗑
   
🗑
egg   ov/i, ov/o  
🗑
   
🗑
enlargement   -megaly  
🗑
   
🗑
enzyme   -ase  
🗑
   
🗑
epididymis   epididym/o  
🗑
   
🗑
equal   iso-  
🗑
   
🗑
esophagus   esophag/o  
🗑
   
🗑
eustachian tube   salping/o  
🗑
   
🗑
examination   -scopy  
🗑
   
🗑
excessive   hyper-, super-, supra-, ultra-  
🗑
   
🗑
excision (removal)   -ectomy  
🗑
   
🗑
expansion or dilation   -ectasis  
🗑
   
🗑
extremity   acr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
eye   ocul/o, ophthalm/o, opt/o  
🗑
   
🗑
eyelid   blephar/o  
🗑
   
🗑
falling   -ptosis  
🗑
   
🗑
fallopian tube   salping/o  
🗑
   
🗑
fascia   fasci/o  
🗑
   
🗑
fast   tachy-  
🗑
   
🗑
fat   adip/o, ather/o, lip/o, steat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
faulty   dys-  
🗑
   
🗑
fear, exaggerated   phob/o  
🗑
   
🗑
femur   femor/o  
🗑
   
🗑
few   olig/o  
🗑
   
🗑
fiber   fibr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
fixation   -pexy  
🗑
   
🗑
flesh   sarc/o  
🗑
   
🗑
foot   pod/o, ped/o  
🗑
   
🗑
form   morph/o  
🗑
   
🗑
formation   -plasia, plas/o, -poiesis  
🗑
   
🗑
formation of   -lasis  
🗑
   
🗑
four   quadri-  
🗑
   
🗑
from   de-  
🗑
   
🗑
fungus   myc/o  
🗑
   
🗑
ganglion   gangli/o  
🗑
   
🗑
gas   aer/o  
🗑
   
🗑
germ or bud   -blast, blast/o  
🗑
   
🗑
gland   aden/o  
🗑
   
🗑
glans penis   balan/o  
🗑
   
🗑
glassy   vitre/o  
🗑
   
🗑
glomerulus   glomerul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
glue   gli/o  
🗑
   
🗑
good   eu-  
🗑
   
🗑
groin   inguin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
gums   gingiv/o  
🗑
   
🗑
hair   trich/o  
🗑
   
🗑
half   hemi-, semi-  
🗑
   
🗑
hard   kerat/o, scler/o  
🗑
   
🗑
head   cephal/o  
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
hearing   acous/o, audi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
hearing condition   -acusis  
🗑
   
🗑
heart   cardi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
heat   therm/o  
🗑
   
🗑
hernia   -cele, herni/o  
🗑
   
🗑
hip bone   pelv/i  
🗑
   
🗑
hormone   hormon/o  
🗑
   
🗑
humped-back   kyph/o  
🗑
   
🗑
ileum   ile/o  
🗑
   
🗑
incision   -tomy  
🗑
   
🗑
increase   -osis  
🗑
   
🗑
inflammation   -itis  
🗑
   
🗑
instrument for examination   -scope  
🗑
   
🗑
instrument for measuring   -meter  
🗑
   
🗑
instrument for recording   -graph  
🗑
   
🗑
jejunum (empty)   jejun/o  
🗑
   
🗑
joint   arthr/o, articul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
juice   chyl/o  
🗑
   
🗑
ketone bodies   ket/o, keton/o  
🗑
   
🗑
kidney   nephr/o, ren/o  
🗑
nephr/o, ren/o   kneecap  
🗑
kneecap   patell/o  
🗑
   
🗑
knowing   gnos/o  
🗑
   
🗑
labor   toc/o  
🗑
   
🗑
large   macro-  
🗑
   
🗑
larynx   laryng/o  
🗑
   
🗑
left or on the left side   sinistr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
lens   phac/o, phak/o  
🗑
   
🗑
light   phot/o  
🗑
   
🗑
like   iso-  
🗑
   
🗑
lip   cheil/o  
🗑
   
🗑
liver   hepat/o, hepatic/o  
🗑
   
🗑
lobe   lob/o  
🗑
   
🗑
loin (lower back)   lumb/o  
🗑
   
🗑
long   macro-  
🗑
macro-   lung  
🗑
lung   pneum/o, pneumon/o, pulmon/o  
🗑
   
🗑
male   andr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
many   multi-, poly-  
🗑
   
🗑
measuring, instrument for   -meter  
🗑
   
🗑
measuring, process of   -metry  
🗑
   
🗑
meninges   mening/o, meningi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
menstruation   men/o  
🗑
   
🗑
milk   lact/o  
🗑
   
🗑
mind   psych/o, phren/o, thym/o  
🗑
   
🗑
mouth   or/o, stomat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
movement   kinesi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
muscle   muscul/o, my/o, myos/o  
🗑
   
🗑
nail   onych/o  
🗑
   
🗑
narrow   sten/o  
🗑
   
🗑
near   ad-  
🗑
   
🗑
neck   cervic/o  
🗑
   
🗑
nerve   neur/o  
🗑
   
🗑
net   reticul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
new   neo-  
🗑
   
🗑
normal   eu-, ortho-  
🗑
   
🗑
nose   nas/o, rhin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
not   de-  
🗑
   
🗑
nourishment   troph/o  
🗑
   
🗑
oil   seb/o  
🗑
   
🗑
old age   presby-  
🗑
   
🗑
one   mono-  
🗑
   
🗑
one who specializes in   -ist  
🗑
   
🗑
one who specializes in the study or treatment of   -logist  
🗑
   
🗑
opening   glott/o, meat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
   
🗑
opposed to   anti-, contra-  
🗑
   
🗑
order   tax/o  
🗑
   
🗑
origin   gen/o, -gen, -genesis  
🗑
   
🗑
out   e-, ec-, ex-  
🗑
   
🗑
outside   ecto-, exo-, extra-  
🗑
   
🗑
ovary   oophor/o, ovari/o  
🗑
   
🗑
oxygen   ox/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pain   -algia, -dynia  
🗑
   
🗑
painful   dys-  
🗑
   
🗑
palate   palat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pancreas   pancreat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
paralysis   -plegia  
🗑
   
🗑
paralysis, slight   -paresis  
🗑
   
🗑
perineum   perine/o  
🗑
   
🗑
peritoneum   peritone/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pertaining to   -ac, -al, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ous, -tic  
🗑
   
🗑
pharynx   pharyng/o  
🗑
   
🗑
place   top/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pleura   pleur/o  
🗑
   
🗑
poison   tox/o, toxic/o  
🗑
   
🗑
portion   lob/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pouching   -cele  
🗑
   
🗑
presence of   -iasis  
🗑
   
🗑
process   -ation  
🗑
   
🗑
process of   -y  
🗑
   
🗑
production   gen/o, -gen, -genesis  
🗑
   
🗑
prostate   prostat/o  
🗑
   
🗑
protein   albumin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pulse   sphygm/o  
🗑
   
🗑
puncture for aspiration   -centesis  
🗑
purple   purpur/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pus   py/o  
🗑
   
🗑
pylorus   pylor/o  
🗑
   
🗑
radius   radi/o  
🗑
   
🗑
record   -gram  
🗑
   
🗑
recording, process of   -graphy  
🗑
   
🗑
rectum   proct/o, rect/o  
🗑
   
🗑
red   erythr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
resembling   -oid  
🗑
   
🗑
reticulum   reticul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
retina   retin/o  
🗑
   
🗑
rib   cost/o  
🗑
   
🗑
right or on the right side   dextr/o  
🗑
   
🗑
rod shaped   rhabd/o  
🗑
   
🗑
rupture   -rrhexis  
🗑
   
🗑
sac   cyst/o, vesic/o, vesicul/o  
🗑
   
🗑
safe   immun/o  
🗑
   
🗑
saliva   sial/o  
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same   homo-  
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scale   squam/o  
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sclera   scler/o  
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sebum   seb/o  
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secrete   crin/o  
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seizure   -lepsy  
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self   auto-  
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sensation   esthesi/o  
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sensitivity, exaggerated   phob/o  
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separate from   dis-  
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sigmoid colon   sigmoid/o  
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sinus   sinus/o  
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skeletal   rhabd/o  
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skin   cutane/o, derm/o, dermat/o  
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skull   crani/o  
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sleep   hypn/o, somn/i, somn/o  
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slow   brady-  
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small   -icle, micro-, -ole, -ula, -ule  
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small intestine   enter/o  
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smooth   lei/o  
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softening   -malacia  
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sound   phon/o, son/o  
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sheath   vagin/o  
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specializes, one who   -ist  
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speech   phas/o  
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sperm   sperm/o, spermat/o  
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spinal cord   myel/o  
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spine   spin/o  
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spleen   splen/o  
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split   schiz/o  
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sternum   stern/o  
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stiff   ankyl/o  
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stomach   gastr/o  
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stone   lith/o  
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stop or stand   -stasis  
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straight   orth/o  
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striated   rhabd/o  
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structure   -ium  
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study of   -logy  
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study of, one who specializes in the   -logist  
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stupor   narc/o  
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sugar   gluc/o, glyc/o, glycos/o  
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surgical repair or reconstruction   -plasty  
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suspension   -pexy  
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suture   -rrhaphy  
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swallow   phag/o  
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sweat   hidr/o  
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sweat, profuse   diaphor/o  
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tear   dacry/o, lacrim/o  
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teeth   dent/i  
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tendon   ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o  
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tension   ton/o  
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testis (testicle)   orch/o, orchi/o, orchid/o, test/o  
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thalamus   thalam/o  
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thick   pachy-  
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thirst   dips/o  
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three   tri-  
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three-dimensional or solid   stere/o  
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throat   pharyng/o  
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through   dia-, per-, trans-  
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thymus gland   thym/o  
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thyroid gland   thyr/o, thyroid/o  
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tissue   hist/o, -ium  
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to or toward   ad-  
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together   con-, sym-, syn-  
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tone   ton/o  
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tongue   gloss/o, lingu/o  
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tonsil   tonsill/o  
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topmost   acr/o  
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trachea   trache/o  
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treatment   -iactrics, -iatry, -iatr/o  
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treatment of, one who specializes in the   -logist  
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tumor   -oma, onc/o  
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twisted   scoli/o  
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two   bi-  
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ulna   uln/o  
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under   infra-, sub-  
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upon   epi-  
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ureter   ureter/o  
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urethra   urethr/o  
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urine   ur/o, urin/o  
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uterine tube   salping/o  
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uterus   hyster/o, metr/o, uter/o  
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vagina   colp/o, vagin/o  
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vein   phleb/o, ven/o  
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vein, swollen or twisted   varic/o  
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ventricle   ventricul/o  
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vertebra   vertebr/o, spondyl/o  
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vessel   angi/o, vas/o, vascul/o  
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vision, condition of   -opia  
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voice   phon/o  
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voice box   laryng/o  
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vomiting   -emesis  
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vulva   vulv/o, episi/o  
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water   aque/o, hydr/o  
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wax   cerumin/o  
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weakness   -asthenia  
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white   leuc/o, leuk/o  
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windpipe   trache/o  
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with   con-, sym-, syn-  
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within   en-, endo-, intra-  
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without   a-, an-  
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woman   gynec/o  
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gynec/o   word, phrase  
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word, phrase   lex/o  
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yellow   xanth/o  
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