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63 Cards in this Set
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cephal/o
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head
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mast/o
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breast
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phleb/o
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vein
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colon/o
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colon
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-colon-
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encephal/o
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brain
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-cephal/o=head
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gastr/o
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stomach
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arthr/o
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joint
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thorac/o
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chest
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oste/o
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bone
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-centesis
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puncture
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-ectomy
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removal
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masectomy
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-tome
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instrument to cut
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-stomy
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new opening
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-tomy
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incision, cut into
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-desis
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fixation (of bone or joint)
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-pexy
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fixation (of an organ)
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-rrhaphy
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suture
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-plasty
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surgical repair
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rhinoplasty= nose repair
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-clasis
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fracture
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-lysis
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seperation
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-tripsy
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crushing
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-algia
-dynia |
pain
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-cele
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hernia, swelling
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-ectasis
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expansion
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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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leukemia
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-gen
-genesis |
forming, producing, origin
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-gram
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record, a writing
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cardiogram
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-graph
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instrument for recording
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polygraph
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-graphy
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process of recording
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-iasis
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abnormal condition
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-itis
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inflamation
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pancritis
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-lith
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stone, calculus
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-logist
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speacialist in the study of
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-logy
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study of
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-malacia
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softening
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-meter
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instument for measuring
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-metry
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act of measuring
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-oid
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resembling
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-oma
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tumor
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-osis
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abnormal condition, increase
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-para
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to bear (offspring)
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-paresis
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partial paralysis
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-pathy
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disease
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-penia
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decrease, deficiency
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-phagia
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eating, swallowing
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dhyspaghia
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-phasia
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speech
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-philia
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attraction to
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-phobia
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fear
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-plasia
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formation, growth
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-plegia
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paralysis, stroke
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paraplegic
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-poiesis
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formation, production
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-ptosis
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downward displacement
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-rrhage
-rrhagia |
bursting forth
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hemorrhage
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-rrhea
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discharge, flow
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diarrhea
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-rrhexis
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rupture
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-scope
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instrument to view/examine
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microscope
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-scopy
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visual examination
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-spasm
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involuntary contaction, twitching
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-stasis
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standing still
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homeostasis
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-stenosis
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narrowing, stricture
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-toxic
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poison
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-trophy
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developement, nourishment
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