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Chapters 1-5 for test 1

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Word Part
Meaning
-er, ist   one who  
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-iatrician   practitioner  
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-logist   one who studies; specialist  
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-a, -al, -ic, -logic, -logical   pertaining to  
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-iatrics, iatry   medical profession or treatment  
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-logy   study or science of  
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cari/o   heart  
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crin/o   to secrete  
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dermat/o   skin  
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esthesi/o   feeling or sensation  
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gastr/o, enter/o   stomach, intestines  
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ger/a, ger/o, geront/o   elderly  
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immun/o   immune  
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ne/o, nat/o   new, birth  
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neur/o   nerve  
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obstetr/o   midwife  
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onc/o   tumor  
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ophthalm/o   eye  
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orth/o   straight  
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ped/o   child (sometimes foot)  
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ot/o, laryng/o   ear, larynx  
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path/o   disease  
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psycho/o   mind  
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radi/o   radiation (sometimes radius)  
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rheumat/o   rheumatism  
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rhin/o   nose  
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ur/o   urinary tract (sometimes urine)  
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-centesis   surgical puncture  
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-ectomy   excision(surgical removal or cutting out)  
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-lysis   destroying  
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-pexy   surgical fixation (fastening to a fixed position)  
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-plasty   surgical repair  
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-rraphy   suture (uniting a wound by stitches)  
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-scopy   visual exam with a lighted instrument  
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-stomy   formation of an opening  
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-tome   an instrument used for cutting  
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-tomy   incision (cutting into tissue)  
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-tripsy   surgical crushing  
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aden/o   gland  
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angi/o   vessel  
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append/o, appendic/o   appendix  
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bi/o   life or living  
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blephar/o   eyelid  
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cerebr/o, encephal/o   brain  
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chir/o   hand  
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col/o   colon or large intestine  
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cutane/o, derm/a, dermat/o   skin  
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faci/o   face  
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hepat/o   liver  
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mamm/o, mast/o   breast  
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muscul/o, my/o   muscle  
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myel/o   bone marrow or spinal cord  
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oste/o   bone  
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pulm/o, pulmon/o, pneum/o, pneumon/o   lungs  
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tonsill/o   tonsil  
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trache/o   trachea (windpipe)  
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va/o   vessel; ductus deferens  
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-algia, -dynia   pain  
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-cele   hernia  
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-ectasia, -ectasis   dilation, enlargement or stretching of a structure of part  
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-edema   swelling  
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-emia   condition of the blood  
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-ia, -iasis   condition  
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-itis   inflammation  
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-lith   stone or calculus  
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-malacia   soft, softening  
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-mania   excessive preoccupation  
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-megaly   enlargement  
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-oid   resembling  
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-oma   tumor  
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-osis   conition (often an abnormal coniditon; sometimes an increase)  
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-pathy   disease  
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-penia   deficiency  
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-phobia   abnormal fear  
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-ptosis   prolapse (sagging)  
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-rrhage, -rrhagia   excessive bledding or hemorrhage  
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-rrhea   flow or discharge  
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-rrhexis   rupture  
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-spasm   twitching, ramp  
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-stasis   stopping, controlling  
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-able, -ible   capable of, able to  
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-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic   pertaining to  
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-ase   enzyme  
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-eum, ium   membrane  
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-ia, ism   condition or theory  
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-iac   one who suffers  
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-opia   vision  
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-ose   sugar  
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-ous   pertaining to or characterized by  
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-y   state or conidition  
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amyl/o   starch  
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glyc/o   sugar  
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hemat/o   blood  
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lact/o   milk  
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lip/o   fat  
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lith/o   stone  
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micro-   small  
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muc/o   mucus  
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prote/o, protein/o   protein  
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pyr/o   fire  
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mono-, uni-   one  
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bi-, di-   two  
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tri-   three  
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quad-, quadri-, tetra-   four  
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centi-   one hundred or one-hundredth 1/100  
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milli-   one-thousandth 1/1000  
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diplo-   double  
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hemi-, semi-   half, partly  
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hyper-   excessive, more than normal  
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hypo-   beneath or below normal  
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multi, poly-   many  
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nulli-   none  
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pan-   all  
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primi-   first  
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super-, ultraq-   excessive  
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ab-   away from  
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ad-   toward  
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ante-, pre-   before in time or in place  
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circum-, peri-   around  
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dia-   through  
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ecto-, ex-, exo-, extra-   out, without, away from  
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en-, end-, endo-   inside  
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epi-   above, on  
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hypo-, infra-, sub-   beneath, under  
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inter   between  
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intra-   within  
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meso-, mid-   middle  
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para-   near, beside, or abnormal  
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per-   through or by  
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post-   after, behind  
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retro-   behind, backward  
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super-, supra-   above, beyond  
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sym-, syn-   jointed, together  
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trans-   across  
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ante-, pre-, pro-   before  
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post-   after or behind  
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macro-, mega-,. megalo-   large or great  
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micro-   small  
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a-, an-   no, not, without  
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in-   not or inside (in)  
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anti-, contra-   against  
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brady-   slow  
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dys-   bad, difficult  
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eu-   good, normal  
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mal-   bad  
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pro-   favoring, supporting  
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tachy-   fast  
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alb/o, albin/o, leuk/o   white  
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chlor/o   green  
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cyan/o   blue  
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erythr/o   red  
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melan/o   black  
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xanth/o   yellow  
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cyt/o, -cyte   cell  
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gen/o, -genic, -genesis   beginning, origin  
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gram/o   to record  
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-gram   a record  
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-graph   instrument for recording  
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-graphy   process of recording  
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kinesi/o, -kinesia, -kinesis   movement, motion  
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leps/o, -lepsy   seizure  
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lys/o   destruction, dissolving  
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-lysin   that wich destroys  
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-lysis   process of destroying  
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-lytic   capable of or producing destruction  
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malac/o, malacia   soft, softening  
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megal/o, megaly   large, enlarged, enlargement  
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metr/o   measure, uterine tissue  
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-meter   instrument used to measure  
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-metry   process of measuing  
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path/o, -pathy   disease  
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phag/o   eat, ingest  
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-phagia, -phagic, -phagy   eating, swallowing  
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phas/o, phasia   speech  
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pleg/o, -plegia   paralysis  
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schis/o, schiz/o, schist/o, -schisis   split, cleft  
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scler/o, -sclerosis   hard, hardening  
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scop/o   to examine, to view  
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troph/o, -trophic, -trophy   nutrition  
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aer/o   air  
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blast/o   embryonic form  
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cancer/o, carcin/o   cancer  
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cephal/o   head  
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cry/o   cold  
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crypt/o   hidden  
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dips/o   thirst  
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electr/o   electricity  
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fibr/o   fiber  
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hist/o   tissue  
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myc/o   fungus  
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narc/o   stupor  
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necr/o   dead  
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optic/o, opt/o   vision  
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pharmac/o   drugs, medicine  
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phon/o   voice  
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phot/o   light  
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py/o   pus  
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therm/o   heat  
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top/o   position, place  
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trache/o   trachea (windpipe)  
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