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-plasm
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growth, substance, formation
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dist/o
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away (from the point of attachment to the body)
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my/o
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muscule
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neur/o
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nerve
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-osis
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abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)
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lei/o
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smooth
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kary/o
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nucleus
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poster/o
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back; behind
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infer/o
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below
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anter/o
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front
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-stasis
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control; stop; standing
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meta-
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after; beyond; change
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eryth/o
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red
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dia-
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through; complete
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-genic
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producing; originating; causing
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-ad
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toward
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eti/o
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cause (of disease)
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ventr/o
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belly (front)
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iatr/o
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physician; medicine
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sarc/o
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flesh; connective tissue
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dys-
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painful; abnormal; difficult; labored
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-oid
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resembling
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-plasia
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condition of formation; development; growth
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aden/o
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gland
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-sarcoma
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maglinant tumor
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-sis
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state of
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proxim/o
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near (the point of attachment of a body part)
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chlor/o
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green
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cyan/o
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blue
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onc/o
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tumor; mass
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caud/o
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tail (downward)
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lip/o
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fat
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menan/o
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black
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organ/o
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organ
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rhabd/o
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rod-shaped; striated
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-cyte
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cell
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uni-
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one
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hist/o
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tissue
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medi/o
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middle
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cephal/o
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head (upward)
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epitheli/o
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epithelium
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cyt/o
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cell
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pro-
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before
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-logy
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study of
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cancer/o, carcin/o
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cancer
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-gen
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substance or agent that produces or causes
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-al, -ic, -ous
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pertaining to
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hypo-
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below; incomplete; deficient; under
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chrom/o
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color
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-megaly
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enlargement
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-oma
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tumor; swelling
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-pathy
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disease
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viscer/o
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internal organs
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system/o
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system
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xanth/o
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yellow
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leuk/o
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white
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fibr/o
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fiber
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gno/o
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knowledge
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later/o
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side
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-ior
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pertaining to
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super/o
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above
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hyper-
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above; excessive
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path/o
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disease
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dors/o
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back
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bi-
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two
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neo-
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new
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-logist
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one who studies and treats
(specialist; physician) |
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somat/o
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body
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