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| Si | Yes
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| a | without or lack of
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| ab | away (away from)
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| abdomin/o | belly
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| able | capable of
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| abort/io | to miscarry or miscarrying (natural or induced)
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| abrupt/io | to tear away from
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| abcess | a going away
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| ac | refers to or pertains to
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| ory | refers to or pertains to
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| us | refers to or pertains to
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| acanth/o | thorny (skin growth)
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| access/o | supplemental
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| acetabul/o | vinegar cup or hip joint (for femur)
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| acne | pointed
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| acoust/i | hearing
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| acr/o | extremities, height and pointed
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| acrom/i | extremities, height and pointed
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| actin/o | sun, ray, radium
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| acu | sharp
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| acus | sharp
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| ad | near or beside
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| aden/o | gland
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| adhes/io | to stick (together)
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| adip/o | fat
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| aer/o | air or gas
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| af | toward
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| age | relates to or pertains to
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| aggglutnin/o | to clump
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| agogue | inducing or leading
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| agon | walls
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| agra | pain
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| al | refers to
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| alb/o | white
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| albumin/o | egg white
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| alges/i | pain
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| algia | pain
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| alimento/o | to nourish
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| alopec/i | fox mange or baldness
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| alveol/i | cavity
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| ambi | both
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| amblyo | dull
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| ambul/o | to walk
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| amine | nitrogen compound
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| amino | organic compound
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| amnesi/o | forgetful
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| amnio | lambs caul 'small cap'
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| amphi | both
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| amylo | starch
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| an | lack of or without
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| an/o | ring
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| ana | apart or up
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| ancone | elbow
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| andr/o | man or male
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| anecto | without expansion or dilation
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| angi/o | vessel
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| angin/o | to choke
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| anil/i | old women
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| anis/o | unequal
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| ankyl/o | fuse or bind
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| anomal/y | abnormal
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| ante | before
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| anter/o | before or foremost (in front)
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| anthr/o | coal or carbuncle
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| anthrac/o | coal or carbuncle
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| anthrop/o | human
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| anti | against
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| antr/o | cavity
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| antr/um | cavity or cavern
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| anuerysm | dilation or ballooning
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| anxio | restlessness, uneasy, apprehensive
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| apheresis | to remove or separate
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| apo | above or upon
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| aponeur/o | upon tendon (sheet or sheath around tendon)
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| append/o | appendage
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| aqua | water
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| ar | refers to
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| ar | without or lack of
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| acrachn/ | spider
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| arachino | spider
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| arche/o | first
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| arche | first
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| aria | air
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| arteri/o | artery
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| arthr/o | joint
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| articul/o | jointed
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| ary | refers to
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| asbest/o | unquenchable
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| ascar/i | worm
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| asco | bag
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| ase | enzyme
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| aspergill/o | to sprinkle
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| aster/o | star
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| asthenia | weakness
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| asthma | panting
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| ate | refers to or action
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| atelo | incomplete, without end, imperfect (ending)
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| athero | porridge or yellow fat
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| ation | process of or procedure of
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| ition | process of or procedure of
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| atm/o | vapor or steam
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| artresia | closure
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| atri/o | chamber
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| attrit/i | wearing out
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| audi | hearing
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| aur/i | ear
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| auricul/o | ear
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| auscult/o | to listen
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| auto | self
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| aut | self
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| avuls/i | to tear
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| axill/o | armpit or central
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| axio | axle or axis
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| axo | axle or axis
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| azoto | urea nitrogen
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| azygo | single
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| Bacill/o | ROD LIKE
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| Bacteri/o | ROD
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| Balan/o | PENIS (GLANS PENIS)
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| Baro | WEIGHT
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| Bary | HEAVY
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| Bas/o | basic
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| Bas/io | at a base
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| Bene | good or normal
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| Benign/i | kind
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| Beri | weakness
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| Bi | two
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| Bil/i | (bil
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| Bin | two
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| bio | life
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| blast | beginning or young
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| bleb/o | (bulla
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| blenno | mucus
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| blepharo | (palpebro
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| bol/o | lump or ball
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| borg | orgasm
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| brach/i | arm
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| brachy | short
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| brady | slow
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| brevi | short
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| bronch/i | windpipe or tracea
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| brux | grinding
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| brucca | cheek
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| bulba | bister or vesicle
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| bula | blister or vesicle
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| bulimo | hunger
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| burs/o | sac, wine
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| cac/o | diseased or bad
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| cal/o | heat, heated or hot
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| calcane/o | heel
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| calcin/o | calcium
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| calco | pebbles or granules (of calcium mineral)
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| caligi/o | dim vision
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| calyx | cups
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| calix | cups
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| call/o | hardened skin
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| calx | heel or lime
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| candid/i | glowing white
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| canth/o | corner of eye
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| capill/o | hair
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| capit/o | head
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| capn/o | carbon dioxide
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| capsulo | little box
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| caput | head
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| carb/o | carbon atoms, coal, or charcoal
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| carbun/o | glowing ember
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| carbuncul/o | glowing ember
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| carcin/o | crab
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| cardi/o | heart
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| carp/o | wrist
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| cata | breakdown or down
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| cataract | waterfall or cloudiness
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| catarrh | to flow down
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| catheter/o | to let down into
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| caud/o | tall or toward tall
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| caust/o | burn or heat
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| cau | burn or heat
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| caus | burn or heat
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| cav | hollow
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| cebo | meal or food
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| cec/o | blind pouch
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| cece | navel
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| cele | swelling or tumor
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| cell/o | abdomen or belly
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| cellul/o | chambers
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| cement/o | hard
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| ceno | empty or common
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| keno | empty or common
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| centesis | surgical puncture to drain fluid
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| centi | one
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| centr/i | center
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| centro | center
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| cephalo | head
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| -cept | receiver
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| cerbr/o | brain
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| ceru | wax
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| cerv/i | neck
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| chalas/i | relaxation
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| chalaz/io | hailstone (eyelid sebaceous cyst)
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| chancr/o | ulcer (sore)
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| cheil/o | lip
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| chilo | lip
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| chiasma | a crossing
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| chiro | hand
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| chlamyd/i | to cloak or cover
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| chlor/o | green
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| cholangio | bile duct
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| chole | bile or gall (ingredient of)
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| cholecyst/o | gallbladder
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| choledoch/o | gallbladder duct (canal)
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| cholera | billary acute diarrhea
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| chondr/o | cartilage
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| chordo | (cordo
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| chorea | dancing (shaking)
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| chrom/o | colored
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| chyme | juice
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| chyle | juice
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| cicatrix scar
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| cid | to kill
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| cil/i | eyelash
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| cili | eyelash or eyelash like
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| cimex | bug
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| cine/o | movement filming
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| circum | around
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| cirrh/o | yellow
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| cis | cut or to cut
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| cistern/o | cavity
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| clalasia | relaxation
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| clast | breakdown
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| clas | breakdown
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| clavicul/o | collar bone (little key shape)
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| cleido | hook, clavicle or collar bone
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| clino | bent
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| clon/o | turmoil
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| clubb/o | rounding
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| clysis | irrigation or injection
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| co | two
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| coagulo/o | clotting or clot
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| coccus | berry
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| coccyg/o | tailbone
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| cochle/o | snail
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| coel | hollow belly (cavity)
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| coit/o | to come together (sexual union; inter/course "between/a flowing")
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| col/o | colon big or large intestine
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| colon/o | colon big or large intestine
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| colla/o | glue
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| collis | twisted
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| colob/o | to mutilate
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| colpo | vagina
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| com | together
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| comato | deep sleep
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| con | together
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| conch/a | shell
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| concuss/i | violent shaking
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| condyl/o | knuckle (nob)
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| coni/o | dust
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| conis | cone shaped
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| conjuctiv/o | together joined (united)
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| continence | contained
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| contra | against
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| contrecoup | counter blow
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| contus/i | bruise
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| convolo | to roll together
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| corac/o | crows beak (shape)
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| cord | vocal chords cord
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| core/o | pupil or iris (rainbow)
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| cori/o | skin
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| corne/o | cornea or horn (shape)
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| cornu | horn or horny
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| coron/o | crowning
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| coronal | plane (aka: frontal plane)crowning frontal body cut
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| corp/o | body
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| cortic/o | bark, outer bark, rind, or cortex
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| cost/o | rib
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| cox/a | hip, hip joint, (pelvis and femur)
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| cox/o | hip, hip joint, (pelvis and femur)
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| crani/o | skull
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| cras/o | mixture
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| creas | fleshy or flesh
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| crenat/o | notched
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| cric/o | ring
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| crine | secrete
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| crin | secrete
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| crit | separate
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| cruc/i | cross or cross
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| crur/o | leg thigh or femur
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| crus/o | leg thigh or femur
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| crust/ | scab or outer coat
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| cryo | cold
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| crypto | secret
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| cub/o | cube or cube shaped
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| cubit/o | elbow
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| culd/o | blind pouch
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| cule | little
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| cune/i | wedge
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| currett/o | scooping or scraping
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| cusis | hearing
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| cusp/i | pointed
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| cuti/o | (cut
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| cutis | skin
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| cyan/o | blue
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| cycl/o | circle
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| cyesis | pregnancy
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| cyst/o | bladder or sac
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| cyst | bladder or sac
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| cyst/i | bladder or sac
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| cystido | bladder or sac
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| cyte | cell or chamber
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| cyt | cell or chamber
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| cyth | cell or chamber
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| cyesis | cytosis increase (in number)
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| dacryo | tear
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| dactylo | digits (fingers and toes)
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| de | away
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| debride | removal
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| deca | one/tenth (1/10)
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| decem | one/tenth (1/10)
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| decub/o | to lie down
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| deep | most inward
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| deka | , dek
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| delta | fan shaped or triangular
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| dem/o | people
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| demi | half
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| dendr/o | tree
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| DENT/O | TOOTH OR TEETH
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| DON'T/O | TOOTH OR TEETH
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| DEPRESS | LOWER
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| DERM/O | SKIN
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| DERMAT/O | SKIN
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| DESIS | BINDING,TO BAND OR A BAND
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| desmo | ligament (also tendon)
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| deuter/o | second or secondary
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| dextr/o | rght
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| di | two
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| dia | across, through, total or complete, or between
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| diaphoro | excessive sweating
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| didymis | testis or teste
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| different | to separate or apart
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| deferens | to separate or apart
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| digit | finger or toe
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| diplo | double or two
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| dips/o | thirst or thirsty
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| dipther/i | membrane
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| dis | away from or reversed
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| dist/o | farther from
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| diverticul/o | outpouching
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| doch/o | duct or canal
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| doct/o | to teach or teacher
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| dol/o | pain
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| dolich/o | long, seperation, dislocation
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| dors/o | back
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| dos/e | (dose) a giving
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| dote | what is given
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| dracuncul/o | little dragon (worm)
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| dromo | running
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| du/o | two
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| duct/o | to draw or to lead (motion) away
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| duoden/o | twelve
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| dura | hard
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| dwarf/o | small
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| dy/o | two or a pair
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| dynam/o | work or strength
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| dynia | pain
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| dys | diffucult, faulty or painful
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| -e | instrument
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| e- | out or remove
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| eal | refers to
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| ec | outside, outward, outer or out
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| ect | outside, outward, outer or out
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| ecto | outside, outward, outer or out
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| ecchymo/ | juice out
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| eccrine | secreting or to secrete
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| echin/o | prickly, spiny or notched
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| echo | sound
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| -ectasis | dilation
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| -estasy | dilation
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| ectomy | excisio or removal
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| eczema | to boil out
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| edema | swelling
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| ef | away or out
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| effer | away or out
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| effus | away or out
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| electr/o | electrical
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| ellum | lesser or smaller
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| em | in
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| emac/i | to grow thin
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| embryo | early
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| emesis | vomit
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| ernia | blood
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| emmetr/o | normal or correct
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| emphysema | puffed up
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| en | in
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| enamel | hard
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| encephal/o | within head brain
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| enchyma | anything poured in (essential organ part)
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| endo | within or inside
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| enema | injection
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| entero | intestine (usually refers to small intestine)
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| enuresis | to void (expel) urine
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| eosin/o | rose red (color)
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| epi | upon
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| episi/o | pubic region
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| er | one who
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| or | one who
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| ergo | work or labor
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| eruct/o | belching
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| erythermat/o | red or flushed
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| erthr/o | red
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| eschar | scab
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| eso | toward
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| esthes/i | feeling (physical)
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| estr/o | female
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| ethm/o | sieve
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| eti/o | cause
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| eti/o | cause
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| eu | good or normal
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| ex | out, outside, outward
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| exo | out, outside, outward
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| extra | out, outside, outward
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| facet | face
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| fac | face
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| faci/o | face
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| facient | making
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| fasc/i | band
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| febr/o | fever
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| fec/o | stool, fecal matter, or dung
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| scato | stool, fecal matter, or dung
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| sterco | srool, fecal matter or dung
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| femor/o | thigh
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| fenestr/o | window
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| ference | to carry
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| ferro | iron
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| fet/o | young
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| fibrill/o | to quiver
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| fibrin/o | fiber
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| fibro | fiber
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| fibul/o | to clasp
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| fil | thread
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| fila | thread
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| fili | thread
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| filar/i | thread
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| fimbri/o | fingers
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| fiss | to split or splitting
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| fistul/o | pipe or pipe
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| flacci/o | soft
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| flagell/o | whip
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| flat/o | to blow
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| flex | to bend
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| flect | to bend
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| flu | flowing
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| flux | to flow
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| foc/o | center or hearth
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| fontan/o | little fountain
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| formamen/o | opening
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| fore | before
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| form | shaped shape or form
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| fossa | furrow or shallow depression
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| fract/o | to break
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| front/o | forehead or before
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| -fuge | To flee
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| fulgur/o | to lighten (with sparks burning tissue)
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| fulv/o | brown
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| fund/o | base or lage part (organ body)
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| fungi | mushroom
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| furc/o | branch or fork
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| furun/o | boil
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| galact/o | milk
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| gamet/o | to marry, unite, or sexual union
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| gam/o | to marry, unite, or sexual union
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| gangli/o | knot swelling or collection knot
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| gangren/o | eating sore
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| gastr/o | stomach
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| gelat/o | freeze or congeal
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| gelatino | freeze or congeal
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