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126 Cards in this Set
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blephar/o
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eyelid
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chol/e
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bile/gall
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cholecyst/o
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gallbladder
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chondr/o
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cartilage
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cost/o
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ribs
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cyan/o
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blue
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cyst/o
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bladder
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-dipsia
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thirst
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-dynia
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pain
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dys-
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bad, painful, difficult
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-ectasis
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dilation, expansion
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-ectomy
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removal, excision
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encephal/o
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brain
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enter/o
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intestine (usually small)
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epi-
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above, upon
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erthyr/o
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red
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eu-
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good, normal
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-gen, -genesis
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producing, forming
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gero-
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aged
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glauc-
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gray
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-gram
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record
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-graphy
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process of recording
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-gravida
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pregnant woman
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hemangi/o
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blood vessel
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hemat/o
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blood
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hem/o
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blood
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hyster/o
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uterus
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-ia
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condition
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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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in-
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not
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-ism
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condition
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-itis
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inflammation
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leuk/o
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white
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lith/o
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stone, calculus (?)
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-logist
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specialist in the study of
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-logy
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the study of
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-lysis
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separation, destruction, loosening
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lyso-
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dissolving
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mast/o
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breast
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mamm/o
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breast
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megal/o
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enlargement
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melano/o
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black
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men/o
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menses, menstruation
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metr/o
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uterus
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myc/o
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fungus
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myel/o
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spinal cord, bone marrow
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my/o
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muscle
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necr/o
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death
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neo-
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new
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-ole
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small
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-oma
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tumor
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onych/o
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nail
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oophor/o
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ovary
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-opia
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vision
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orchid/o
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testes
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or/o
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mouth
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-osis
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abnormal condition
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ot/o
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ear
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-ous
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pertaining to
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para-
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near, beside, around
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-pathy
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disease
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-penia
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decreased
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-pepsia
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digestion
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-peri
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around
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-phagia
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swallow, eat
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phleb/o
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vein
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-plasia, -plasm
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growth, formation
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plasty
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surgical repair
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-plegia
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paralysis
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-pnea
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breathing
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pneum/o, pneumon/o
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lung, air
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proct/o
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rectum, anus
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-ptosis
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prolapse, falling, dropping
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purpur-
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purple
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pyel/o
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renal, pelvis
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py/o
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pus
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radi/o
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x-rays, radiation
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-rrhage
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bursting forth (of)
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-rrhea
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flow, discharge
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scler/o
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sclera, hardening
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-scopy
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visual examination
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spondyl/o
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vertebra (backbone)
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-stasis
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at a standstill
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-stenosis
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stricture, narrowing
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stomat/o
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mouth
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-stomy
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forming a new opening or mouth
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tachy-
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rapid
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thromb/o
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blood clot
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-tome
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instrument to cut
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-tomy
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incision, cut into
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trich/o
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hair
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-tripsy
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crushing
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-ule
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small
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vascul/o
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blood vessel
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ven/o
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vein
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vesic/o
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bladder
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xanth/o
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yellow
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xer/o
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dry
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-algia
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pain
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-angi/o
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vessel (usually blood or lymph)
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ante-
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before
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arthro/o
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joint
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-cide
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kill, destroy
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-emia
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blood
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gastr/o
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stomach
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gluc/o, glyc/o
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sugar, glucose
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gynec/o
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woman, female
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laryng/o
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larynx (voice box)
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lumb/o
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lower back, loin
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macro-
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large
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maxilla/o
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jaw
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meningi/o, mening/o
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meninges
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-meter
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measure, instrument for measuring
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oste/o
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bone
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-pedia
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child
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ped/o
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foot
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-phasia
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speech
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pleur/o
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pleura
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ren/o
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kidney
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retin/o
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retina
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sacro/o
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sacrum
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sub-
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under, below
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thorac/o
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chest
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-uria, ur/o
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urine, urination
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vulvo
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vulva
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