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18 Cards in this Set
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Anomaly |
Irregularity; departure from the common rule; abnormailty |
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Anorexia |
without longing; of appetite, especially when prolonged |
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Aphasia |
not speaking; parital or complete loss of the power to use and understand words |
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Apolitical |
not connected with political matters; of no political significance; uninterested in politics |
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Asexual |
occurring or produced without sexual action; sexless |
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Asphyxiation |
no throbbing; loss of consciousness due to lack of oxygen or presence of poisonous gases; suffocation |
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Asylum |
without right of seizure; inviolable place where one can be free from arrest; protection; sanctuary; shelter |
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Asymptomatic |
without evidence of disease; symptomless |
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Atrophy |
without nourishment; wasting away or decrease in size of a body organ or tissue |
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Atypical |
not typical; irregular; abnormal |
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Abiogenesis |
theory that life can originate from nonliving matter; spontaneous genertion |
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Abyss |
without bottom; seemingly bottomless pit or gulf; chasm; anything immeasurably deep |
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Agnostic |
not know; person who is not committed to believing in either the existence or nonexistence of God or as a god |
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Amnesia |
not remembering; loss of memory |
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Amnesty |
general pardon for an offense including a political offense against a goverment |
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Amorphous |
whithout definte form; shapeless; vague |
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Anaerobic |
able to live or grow in the absence of oxygen |
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Anemia |
without blood |
