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100 Cards in this Set
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-ac,-al,-ar,-ary,-eal, -ial,-ic,-ous
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pertaining to
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- agra
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excessive pain
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- algia
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pain
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- apheresis
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removal
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- ase
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enzyme
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- asthenia
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weakness
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- atresia
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absence of a normal body opening; occlusion; closure
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- capnia
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carbon dioxide
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- cele
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hernia; protrusion
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- centesis
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surgical puncture to aspirate fluid
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- cidal
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killing
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- clasia,-clasis,-clast
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break
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- clysis
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irrigating; washing
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- crine
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separate; secrete
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- crit
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to separate
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- cyte
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cell
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- desis
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surgical fixation; fusion
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- drome
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run; running
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- ectasis
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stretching out; dilatation; expansion
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- ectomy
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excision or surgical removal
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- ectopia
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displacement
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- emesis
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vomiting
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- emia
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blood condition
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- esis, -iasis
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condition
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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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- gram
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record; x-ray film
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- graph
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instrument used to record
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- graphy
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process of recording; xray filming
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- ia
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condition of diseased or abnormal state
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- iatry
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physician; treatment
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- ictal
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seizure; attack
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- ism, -sis
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state of
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Suffix
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Definition
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- itis
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inflammation
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- lepsy
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seizure
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- lysis
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loosening; dissolution; separating
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- lytic
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destroy; reduce
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- malacia
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softening
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- mania
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madness; insane desire
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- megaly
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enlargement
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- meter
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instrument used to measure
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- metry
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measurement
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- morph
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form; shape
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- odia
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smell
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- oid
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resembling
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- ologist
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one who studies and practices (specialist)
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- ology
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study of
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- oma
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tumor; swelling
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- oorhagia
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rapid flow of blood
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- opia
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vision (condition)
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- opsy
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to view
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- orrhaphy
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suturing; repairing
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- orrhea
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flow; excessive discharge
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- orrhexis
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rupture
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- osis
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abnormal condition(means" increased" with blood cell word roots)
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- ostomy
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creation of an artificial opening
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- otomy
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cut into or incision
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- oxia
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oxygen
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- paresis
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slight paralysis
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- pathy
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disease
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- penia
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abnormal reduction in number
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- pepsia
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digestion
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- pexy
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surgical fixation; suspension
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- phagia
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eating; swallowing
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- philia, -phily
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love, morbid fondness
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- phobia
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abnormal fear/aversion to specific objects or things
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- phonia
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sound or voice
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- phoria
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feeling
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- physis
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growth
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Suffix
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Definition
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- plasia
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formation; development; a growth
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- plasm
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growth; substance; formation
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- plasty
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plastic or 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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- poiesis
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formation
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- porosis
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passage
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- prandial
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meal
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- praxia
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in front of; before
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- ptosis
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dropping; sagging; prolapse
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- ptysis
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spitting
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- salpinx
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fallopian tube
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- sarcoma
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malignant tumor
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- schisis
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split; fissure
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- sclerosis
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hardening
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- scope
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instrument used for visual examination
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- scopy
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visual examination
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- sepsis
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infection
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- spasm
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involuntary muscle contraction
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- stalsis
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contraction
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- stasis
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control; stop
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- stenosis
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narrowing
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- tocia
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birth; labor
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- tome
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instrument used to cut
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- tripsy
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surgical crushing
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- trophy
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nourishment, growth
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- ule
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little
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- uria
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urine
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