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52 Cards in this Set
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aden/o
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gland
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cty/o
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cell
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epitheli/o
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epithelium
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fibr/o
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fiber
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hist/o
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tissue
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hary/o
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nucleus
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lip/o
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fat
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my/o
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muscle
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neur/o
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nerve
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organ/o
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organ
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sarc/o
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flesh, connective tissue
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system/o
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system
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viscer/o
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internal organs
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cancer/o
or carcin/o |
cancer - abnormal growth of cells
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eti/o
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cause (of disease)
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gno/o
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knowledge
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latr/o
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physician, medicine (also means treatment)
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lei/o
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smooth
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onc/o
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tumor, mass
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path/o
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disease
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rhabd/o
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rod-shaped, striated
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somat/o
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body
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chlor/o
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green
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chrom/o
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color
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cyan/o
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blue
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erythr/o
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red
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leuk/o
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white
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melan/o
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black
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xanth/o
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yellow
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dia-
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through, complete
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dys-
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painful, abnormal, difficult, labored
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hyper-
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above, excess
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hypo-
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below, incomplete, deficient
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meta-
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after, beyond, change
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neo-
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new
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pro-
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before
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-al, -ic, -ous
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pertaining to
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-cyte (note that cyte ends in an e when used as a suffix
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cell
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-gen
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substance or agent that produces or causes
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-genesis
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origin, cause
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-genic
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producing, originating, causing
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-logist
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one who studies and treats (specialist, physician)
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-logy
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study of
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-oid
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resembling
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-oma
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tumor, swelling
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-osis
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abnormal condition (means increase when used with blood cell word roots)
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-pathy
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disease
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-plasia
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condition of formation, development, growth
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-plasm
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growth, substance, formation
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-sarcoma
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malignant tumor
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-sis
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state of
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-stasis
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control, stop, standing
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