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79 Cards in this Set
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-ac -al -ar -ary -ic -ous -tic
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pertaining to |
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-algia |
painful condition, pain |
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-blast |
embryonic |
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-cele |
hernia, swelling, sac
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-centesis |
puncture of a cavity |
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-clasis |
break, fracture |
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-clysis |
irrigation, washing |
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-coccus |
berry shaped |
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-crit |
to separate |
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-cyte |
cell |
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-desis |
fusion, binding, fixation |
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-drome |
to run |
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-dynia -odynia |
pain |
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-ectasis |
expansion, dilation |
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-ectomy |
excision, removal of a body part |
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-emesis |
vomiting |
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-emia |
blood |
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-er |
one who |
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-gen -genesis |
forming, producing, origin |
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-genic |
origin, formation |
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-grade |
to go |
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-gram |
the record made, mark |
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-graph |
instrument for recording, machine |
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-graphy |
the process, process of recording |
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-ia -ism |
condition |
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-iasis |
morbid condition |
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-iatry |
treatment, medicine |
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-ist |
one who specializes in, specialist |
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-icle -ole -ula -ule |
small, minute |
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-itis |
inflammation |
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-lith |
stone, calculus |
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-logist |
specialist in the study of |
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-logy |
process of study |
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-lysis |
dissolution, setting free |
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-malacia |
softening, soft |
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-megaly |
enlargement |
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-meter |
instrument for measuring |
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-metry |
act of measuring |
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-oid |
form, shape |
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-ology |
study or science of |
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-oma |
tumor |
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-opsy |
viewing |
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-or |
one who |
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-orrhea -rrhea |
-flow, discharge |
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-osis |
condition, disease |
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-para |
to bear (offspring) |
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-paresis |
partial paralysis |
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-pathy |
disease, suffering |
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-penia |
deficiency, lack of, decrease |
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-pexy |
fixation |
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-phagia |
eating, swallowing |
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-phasia |
speech |
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-phillia |
attraction for |
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-phobia |
fear |
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-physis |
to grow |
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-plasia -plasm |
formation, growth |
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-plasty |
mold, shape, repair |
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-plegia |
paralysis |
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-poiesis |
formation, production |
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-ptosis |
downward displacement, falling |
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-ptysis |
spitting |
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-rrhage -rrhagia |
bursting forth |
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-rrhaphy |
suture |
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-scope |
instrument to visually examine |
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-scopy |
process of examining, visual examination, |
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-sis |
state of, condition |
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-spasm |
involuntary spasm |
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-stalsis |
constriction |
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-stasis |
control, constant level, stop |
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-stenosis |
narrowing, stricture |
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-stomy |
creation of an opening |
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-therapy |
treatment |
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-tome |
instrument for cutting |
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-tomy |
process of cutting, incision |
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-toxic |
poison |
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-tresia |
opening |
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-tripsy |
surgical crushing |
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-trophy |
nutrition |
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-y |
process |
