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30 Cards in this Set
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-iatrician
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Practitioner
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-osis
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Condition (often abnormal condition, sometimes, an increase)
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-centesis
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Surgical puncuture to aspirate or remove fluid
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ectasia
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Dilatation (dilation, enlargement) or stretching of a structure or part
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-ectasis
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Dilatation (dilation, enlargement) or stretching of a structure or part
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-edema
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Swelling
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-cele
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Herina (protrustion of all or part of an organ through the wall of the cavity that contains it)
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-penia
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Deficiency
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-y
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State or condition
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-tome
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An instrument used for cutting
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-rrhaphy
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suture (uniting a wound by stitches)
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-ptosis
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prolapse, sagging
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myel/o
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bone marrow or spinal cord
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-iac
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one who suffers
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-oid
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resembling
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-ous
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pertaining to or characterized by
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-emesis
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vomiting
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-opia
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vision
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radi/o
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radiation (sometimes radius) ?
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-stomy
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formation of an opening
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-scopy
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visual examination with a lighted instrument
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obstetr/o
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midwife
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-ac, -al, -an, -ar, -ary, -eal, -ic, -ive, -tic
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pertaining to
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-megaly
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enlargement
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-er, -ist
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one who
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ger/a
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elderly
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ger/o
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elderly
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geront/o
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elderly
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-ectomy
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excision (surgical removal or cutting out)
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-tomy
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incision
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