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Acanth(o)

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Spiny, thorny

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Actin(o)

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Light

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Aer(o)

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Air; gas

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Alge, algesi, algio, algo

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Pain

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Amyl(o)

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Starch

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Andro

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Masculine

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Athero

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Plaque; fatty substance

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Bacill(i)

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Bacilli, bacteria

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Bacteri(o)

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Bacteria

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Bar(o)

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Weight, pressure

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Bas(o), basi(o)

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Base

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Bio-

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Life

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Blasto

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Immature cells

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Cac(o)

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Bad, ill

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Calc(o), calci(o)

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Calcium

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Carcin(o)

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Cancer

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Chem(o)

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Chemical

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Chlor(o)

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Chlorine, green

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Chondrio, chondro

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Cartilage, grainy, gritty

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Chore(o)

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Dance

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Chrom, chromat, chromo

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Color

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Chrono

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Time

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Chyl(o)

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Chyle, a digestive juice

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Chym(o)

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Chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

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Cine(o)

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Movement

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Coni(o)

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Dust

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Crin(o)

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Secrete

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Cry(o)

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Cold

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Crypt(o)

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Hidden, obscure

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Cyan(o)

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Blue

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Cycl(o)

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Circle, cycle, ciliary body

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Cyst(o), cysti

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Bladder, cyst, cystic duct

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Cyt(o)

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Cell

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Dextr(o)

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Right, toward the right

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Dips(o)

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Thirst

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Dors(o), dorsi

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Back

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Dynamo

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Force, energy

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Echo

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Reflected sound

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Electr(o)

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Electricity, electric

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Eosin(o)

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Red, rosy

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Ergo

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Work

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Erythr(o)

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Red, redness

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Esthesio

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Sensation, perception

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Ethmo

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Ethmoid bone

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Etio

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Cause

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Fibr(o)

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Fiber

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Fluor(o)

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Light, luminous, fluorine

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Fungi

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Fungus

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Galact(o)

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Milk

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Gen(o)

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Producing, being born

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Gero, geront(o)

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Old age

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Gluco

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Glucose

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Glyco

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Sugars

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Gonia

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Angle

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Granulo

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Granular

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Gyn(o), gyne, gyneco

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Women

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home(o), homo

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Same, constant

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Hydr(o)

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Hydrogen, water

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Hypn(o)

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Sleep

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iatr(o)

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Physician, treatment

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ichthy(o)

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Dry, scaly, fish

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idio

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Distinct, unknown

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immun(o)

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Safe, immune

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kal(i)

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potassium

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karyo

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nucleus

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ket(o), keton(o)

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ketone, acetone

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kin(o), kine

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movement

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kinesi(o), kineso

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motion

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kyph(o)

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humpback

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lact(o), lacti

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Milk

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latero

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lateral, to one side

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lepto

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light, frail, thin

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leuk(o)

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white

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lip(o)

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fat

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lith(o)

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stone

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log(o)

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speech, words, thought

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lys(o)

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dissolution

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macr(o)

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large, long

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medi(o)

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middle, medial plane

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meg(a), megal(o)

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large; million

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melan(o)

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black, dark

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mes(o)

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middle, median

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micr(o)

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small, one-millionth, tiny

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mio

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smaller, less

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morph(o)

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structure, shape

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narco

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sleep, numbness

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necr(o)

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death, dying

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noct(i)

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night

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normo

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normal

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nucle(o)

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nucleus

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nyct(o)

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night

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oncho, onco

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tumor

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orth(o)

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straight, normal

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oxy

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sharp, acute, oxygen

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pachy

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Thick

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path(o)

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disease

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phago

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eating, devouring, swallowing

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pharmaco

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drugs, medicine

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phon(o)

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sound, voice, speech

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phot(o)

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light

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physi, physio

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physical, natural

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physo

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air, gas, growing

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phyt(o)

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plant

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plasma, plasmo

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formative, plasma

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poikilo

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varied, irregular

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pseud(o)

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false

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pyo

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pus

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pyreto

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fever

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pyro

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fever, fire, heat

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radio

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radiation, X-ray, radius

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salping(o)

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tube

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schisto

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split

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schiz(o)

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split, division

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scler(o)

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hardness, hardening

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scolio

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crooked, bent

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scoto

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darkness

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sidero

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iron

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sito

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food, grain

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somat(o)

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body

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somn(o), somni

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sleep

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sono

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sound

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spasmo

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spasm

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spher(o)

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Round, spherical

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spir(o)

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breath, breathe

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squamo

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scale, squamous

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staphyl(o)

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grapelike clusters

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steno

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narrowness

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stere(o)

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three dimensional

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strepto

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twisted chains, streptococci

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styl(o)

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peg- shaped

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syring(o)

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tube

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tel(o), tele(o)

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distant, end, complete

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terato

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monster (as a malformed fetus)

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therm(o)

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heat

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tono

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tension, pressure

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top(o)

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place, topical

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tox(i), toxico, toxo

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poison, toxin

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tropho

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food, nutrition

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vivi

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life

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xanth(o)

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yellow

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xeno

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stranger

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xer(o)

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dry

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xiph(o)

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sword, xiphoid

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zo(o)

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life

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zym(o)

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fermentation, enzyme

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