Clinical Seminar Set 2 Suffixes

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pertaining to

Back 1

ac

al

an

ar

ary

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acusis

Back 2

hearing

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ad

Back 3

toward

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agra

Back 4

excessive pain

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algesia

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sensitivity to pain

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algia

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pain

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amine

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nitrogen compound

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apheresis

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removal

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arthria

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articulate

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ase

Back 10

enzyme

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asthenia

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lack of strength, sickness

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ation

Back 12

process, condition

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blast

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embryonic, immature cell

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blastoma

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tumor cells not fully developed

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centesis

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surgical puncture to remove fluid

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chalasia

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relaxation

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cide

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killing

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cidal

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pertaining to killing

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to break

Back 19

clasis

clast

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clysis

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irragation, washing

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coccus

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berryshaped bacterium

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constriction

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narrowing

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crine

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to secrete, separate

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crit

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to separate

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cusis

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hearing

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cyte

Back 26

cell

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cytosis

Back 27

condition of cells, slight increase in numbers

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derma

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skin

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desis

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to bind, tie together

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dilation

Back 30

widening, stretching, expanding

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dote

Back 31

to give

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drome

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to run

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dynia

Back 33

pain

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eal

Back 34

pertaining to

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dilation, dilatation, widening

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ectasia

ectasis

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ectomy

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removal, excision, resection

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edema

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swelling

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ema

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condition

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emia

Back 39

blood condition

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emic

Back 40

pertaining to blood condition

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er

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one who

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esis

Back 42

action, condition, state of

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eurysm

Back 43

widening

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ferent

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to carry

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fication

Back 45

process of making

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fida

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split

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form

Back 47

resembling, in the shape of

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fusion

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to pour, to come together

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gen

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substance that produces

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genesis

Back 50

producing, forming

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genic

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produced by or in

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globin

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protein

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globulin

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protein

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grade

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to go

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gram

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record

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graph

Back 56

instrument for recording

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graphy

Back 57

process of recording

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hexia

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habit

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ia

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condition

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iac

Back 60

pertaining to

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iasis

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abnormal condition

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ic

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pertaining to

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ical

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pertaining to

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icle

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small

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in

Back 65

a substance

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ine

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a substance

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ine

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pertaining to

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ion

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process

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ior

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pertaining to

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ism

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process, condition

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ist

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specialist

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itis

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inflammation

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ium

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structure, tissue

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kinesis

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movement

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lapse

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to slide, fall, sag

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lemma

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sheath, covering

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lepsy

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seizure

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leptic

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to seize, take hold of

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lexia

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word, phrase

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logy

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study of, or process of

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lucent

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to shine

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lysis

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breakdown, separation, loosening

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lytic

Back 83

to reduce, destroy, separate, breakdown

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malacia

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softening

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mania

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obesessive preoccupation

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megaly

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enlargement

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meter

Back 87

measure

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mimetic

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mimic, copy

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mission

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to send

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mortem

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death

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motor

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movement

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oid

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resemblind, derived from

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ole

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little, small

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oma

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tumor, mass, collection of fluid

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one

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hormone

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opaque

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obscure

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opia

Back 97

condition of vision

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opsia

Back 98

condision of vision

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opsy

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view of

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or

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one who

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orexia

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appetite

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ose

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pertaining to sugar- full of sugar

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osis

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condition, usually abnormal

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ous

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pertaining to

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oxia

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oxygen

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paresis

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weakness

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penia

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dificiency

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pepsia

Back 108

digestion

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pathy

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decrease, emotion

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phage

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eat, swallow

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phagia

Back 111

eating, swallowing

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pexy

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fixation, to put in place

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phasia

Back 113

speech

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pheresis

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removal

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phil, philia

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attraction for

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phobia

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fear

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phonia

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voice, sound

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phoria

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to bear, carry, feeling (mental state)

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phthisis

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wasting away

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phylaxis

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protection

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physis

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to grow

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phyte

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plant

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plakia

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plaque

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plasia

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development, formation

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plasm

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formation, structure

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plastic

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pertaining to formation

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plasty

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surgical repair

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plegia, pelgic

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paralysis, palsy

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praxia

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action

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ptosis

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droop, sag, prolapse, protrude

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ptysis

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spitting

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rrhage, rrhagia

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bursting forth of blood

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rrhaphy

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suture

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rrhea

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flow, discharge

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schisis

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to split

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sclerosis

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hardening

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scope

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instrument used for visual examination

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scopy

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visual examination

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sis

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state of, condition

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sol

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solution

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some

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body

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somnia

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sleep

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spadia

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to tear, cut

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spasm

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sudden contraction of muscles

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sphyxia

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pulse

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stalsis

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contraction

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stasis

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to stop, control, place

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static

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pertaining to stopping, controlling

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stenosis

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tightening, structure

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sthenia

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strength

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stomia

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condition of the mouth

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stomy

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to form a mouth-new opening

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supression

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to stop

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therapy

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treatment

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thorax

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chest, pleural cavity

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thymia

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mind- the condition of

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thymic

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pertaining to mind

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tic

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pertaining to

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tome

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instrument to cut

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tomy

Back 160

process of cutting

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tresia

Back 161

opening

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tripsy

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to crush

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trophy

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nourishment, development (condition of)

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tropia

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to turn

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tropic

Back 165

turning

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tropin

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stimulate, act on

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type

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classification, picture

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ule

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little, small

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um

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structure, tissue

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us

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structure, thing

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verse

version

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to turn

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y

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condition, process