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| adeno | ah-dee-no gland
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| calculi | cal-cue-lie stone
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| cele | sell tumor, cyst, hernia
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| cyto | sigh-toe cell
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| glyco | gl-eye-co sugar, sweet
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| homeo, homo | hoe-me-oh similar, same, like
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| lingua | ling-wha tongue
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| lip | lip fat
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| lith | lith stone
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| madaro | ma-dare-oh falling hair
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| psych | sike mind
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| pyo | pie-oh pus
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| radi | ray-dee rays
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| thermic | ther-mick heat
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| arthro | are-throw joint
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| carpo | car-poe wrist
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| chondro | con-droh cartilage
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| costa | cost-uh rib
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| cranio | crane-knee-oh skull
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| dactyl | dact-till finger
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| ili | ill-lee hip
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| manus | manu-us hand
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| myel | my-el bone marrow
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| myo | my-oh muscle
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| ortho | or-thoh straighten
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| osteo | ah-stee-oh bone
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| pedi | pee-dee foot
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| spondyl | spawn-dill vertebra
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| cutis | cue-tis skin
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| dent | dent teeth
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| derma | dur-muh skin
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| hapsia | hap-see-uh touch
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| odont | on-don-t teeth
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| onco | on-caw tumor
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| onychia | on-nick-ee-uh nail beds
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| pedicular | puh-dick-you-ler lice
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| prurigo | pru-rig-oh itching
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| psora | sore-uh itch
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| sarco | s-ark-oh flesh
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| sclero | s-clear-oh hard
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| squama | skwah-ma scaly
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| tricho | trick-oh hair
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| chole | coal-lee bile, gallbladder
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| colon | coal-on large intestine
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| emesis | emmy-sis vomiting
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| entero | en-tear-oh intestine
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| gastro | gas-tr-oh stomach
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| glosso | gloss-oh tongue
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| hepat | he-pat liver
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| ile | ill-lee ileum
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| laparo | lap-uh-row abdomen
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| myxo | mix-oh mucus
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| procto | prock-toe anus, rectum
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| pyloro | pie-lore-oh pylorus, gatekeeper
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| stoma | stow-muh opening, mouth
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| viscero | v-is-ur-oh body organs
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| angio | an-gee-oh vessel
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| aortal | ay-or-tuhl aorta, main artery
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| arterio | ar-teer-ee-oh artery
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| cardio | car-dee-oh heart
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| emboli | em-bo-lie vessel obstruction
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| emia | em-ee-uh blood
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| hema, hemo | he-muh, he-moe blood
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| phleb | fleab vein
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| thrombo | throm-bow blood clot
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| varico | vair-ee-co varicose veins
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| vaso | vay-so blood vessel
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| vena | vee-nuh vein
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| ventricu | ven-trick-you heart cavity
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| broncho | bronk-oh bronchi, airway
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| cili | sill-ee hairlike process
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| ectasis | ek-ta-sis expansion
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| laryngo | la-ring-go larynx, voice box
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| naso | nay-so nose
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| oro | ore-oh mouth
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| oxy | ox-ee oxygen, keen
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| pector | pect-tore breast, chest
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| pleura | pluh-rah rib side
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| pneumo | new-mow lung
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| ptysis | tie-sis to spit
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| pulmo | pull-mow lungs
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| rhin | rine nose
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| tracheo | tray-key-oh trachea, windpipe
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| creatinine | kree-at-in-in waste material in urine
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| cysto | sis-toe bladder
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| glomerulo | glum-uh-rule-oh nephron part, little ball
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| nephro | nef-row kidney
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| peritoneo | per-uh-toe-knee-o lining of the abdominal organs
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| pyelo | pie-el-oh pelvis
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| reni | ree-knee kidney
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| uretero | you-uh-tuh-row ureter
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| urethro | your-ee-throw urethra
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| uri | your-ee urine
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| uric | your-ick pertaining to urine
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| urina | your-ee-nuh urine
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| uro | your-oh urine
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| bulbo | bull-bow bulblike; bulbourethral gland
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| cervi | serve-ee neck; uterus
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| galacto | guh-lack-toe milk
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| genito | gen-it-oh reproductive system
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| hyster | his-tear uterus
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| lactin | lack-tin milk
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| mast | mast breast
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| metr | me-tur uterus
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| natal | nah-tul born
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| oophoro | ooh-four-oh ovary
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| orchido | or-kid-oh testicle
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| ova, ovi, ovo | oh-vuh egg
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| salping | sal-ping tube; fallopian
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| sperma, spermato | spur-ma seed
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| vas | vahs duct; vessel
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| audio | awe-dee-oh sound
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| cerebro | suh-re-bro brain
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| encephalo | in-sef-uh-low brain
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| esthesia | es-thea-juh sensation
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| medulla | muh-due-la brain middle
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| meningo | men-ing-oh membranes; spinal cord
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| neuro | new-row nerves
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| occiput | awk-see-put back of skull
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| oculo | ah-cue-low eye
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| ophthalmo | op-thal-moe eye
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| oto | oh-toe ear
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| parietes | pa-rye-eh-tease parietel; wall part
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| pons | pawns bridges
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| tempora | temp-ur-uh temporal
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