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74 Cards in this Set
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-ac |
pertaining to
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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
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to separate
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-cyte |
cell
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-desis -pexy |
fixation |
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-drome |
to run
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-algia -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
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vomiting
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-emia |
blood
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-er -or |
one who |
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-gen
-genesis |
forming, producing, origin
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-grade |
to go
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-gram
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the record made, mark
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-graph
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instrument for recording, machine
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-graphy |
the process, process of recording
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-ia -ism -sis |
condition
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-iasis |
morbid condition |
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-iatry
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treatment, medicine
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-ist |
one who specializes in, specialist
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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
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instrument for measuring
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-metry |
act of measuring
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-oid
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form, shape
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-ology
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study or science of
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-oma |
tumor
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-opsy
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viewing
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-orrhea
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flow, discharge |
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-osis -pathy |
disease |
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-para |
to bear (offspring)
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-paresis |
partial paralysis
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-penia |
deficiency, lack of, decrease |
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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
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fear
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-physis |
to grow
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-genic -plasm -plasia -poiesis |
formation |
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-plasty |
mold, shape, repair
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-plegia |
paralysis
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-ptosis
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downward displacement, falling
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-ptysis |
spitting
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-rrhage |
bursting forth
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-rrhaphy |
suture |
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-rrhea |
flow, discharge |
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-rrhexis
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rupture
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-scope |
instrument to visually examine
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-scopy
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process of examining, visual examination
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-spasm |
involuntary spasm |
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-stalsis |
constriction
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-stasis
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control, constant level, stop
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-stenosis
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narrowing, stricture
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--stomy
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creation of an opening
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-therapy
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treatment
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-tome |
instrument for cutting
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-tomy
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process of cutting, incision
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-toxic
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poison
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-tresia |
opening
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-tripsy
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surgical crushing
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-trophy
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nourishment |
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-icle -ole -ula |
small |
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-y
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process |