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Chapter 4 Combining Forms/suffixes/prefix Flashcards

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1
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Carp/o

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Wrist bones

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Cis/o

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Cut

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Cost/o

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Rib

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Cutane/o

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Skin

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Dactyl/o

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Fingers, toes

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Duct/o

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Lead, carry

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Flex/o

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Bend

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Furc/o

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Branching

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Gloss/o

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Tongue

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GLYC/o

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Super

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Immun/o

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Protection

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Morph/o

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Shape/form

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Mort/o

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Death

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Nat/I

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Birth

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Norm/o

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Rule, order

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Ox/o

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Oxygen

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Pub/o

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Pubis, pubic bone, anterior portion of the pelvic or hip bone

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Seps/o

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Infection

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Somn/o

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Sleep

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Son/o

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Sound

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Tens/o

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Force, strain, stretch

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The/o

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Put, place

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Thel/o

Theli/o

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Nipple

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Thyr/o

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Thyroid gland; shield

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Top/o

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Please, position, location

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Tox/o

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Poison

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Trache/o

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Wind pipe, trachea

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Urethr/o

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Urethra

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-crine

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Secrete

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-drome

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Run

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-fusion

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Coming together, to pour

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-gea

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Substance that produces

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-lapse

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Slide, fall, sag

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-lysis

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Breakdown, destruction, separation

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-meter

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Measure

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-mission

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Send

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-or

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One who

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-oxia

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Oxygen

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-partum

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Birth labor

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-phoria

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To bear carry feeling

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-physis

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To grow

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-plasia

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Development formation growth

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-plasm

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Structure or formation

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-Pnea

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Breathing

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-ptosis

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Falling dropping prolapse

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-rrhea

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Flow, discharge

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-stasis

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Stopping, controlling

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-trophy

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Development, nourishment

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-ptom

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Happening occurrence

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-blast

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Embryonic, immature

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A-,an-

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No not without

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Ab-

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Away from

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Ad-

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Toward

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Ana-

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Up apart

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Ante-

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Before forward

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Anti-

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Against

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Auto-

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Self,own

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Bi-

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Two, life

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Brady-

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Slow

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Cata-

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Dial

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Con-

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With together

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Contra-

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Against, opposite

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De-

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Down, lack of

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Dia-

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Through complete

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Dys-

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Bad painful difficult abnormal

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Ec-

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Out outside

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Endo-

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In within

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Epi-

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Upon on above

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Eu-

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Good normal

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Ex-

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Out outside

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Hemi-

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Half

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Hyper-

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Excessive above

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Hypo-

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Deficient under

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In-

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Not

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In-

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Into within

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Infra-

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Beneath under

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Inter-

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Between

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Intra-

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In within into

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Macro-

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Large

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Mal-

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Bad

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Meta-

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Beyond change

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Micro-

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Small

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Neo-

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New

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Pan-

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All

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Para-

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Abnormal beside near

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Per-

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Through

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Peri-

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Surrounding

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Poly-

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Many, much

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Post-

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After behind

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Pre-

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Before in front of

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Pro-

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Before forward

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Pros-

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Before forward

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Re-

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Back again

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Retro-

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Behind backward

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Sub-

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Under

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Supra-

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Above upper

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Syn-

Sym-

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Together with

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Tachy-

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Fast

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Trans-

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Across through

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Ultra-

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Beyond excess

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Uni-

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One

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Antigen

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A substance usually foreign to the body that stimulates the production of antibodies

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Antibodies

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Protein substances made by white blood cells in response to the presence of foreign antigens

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Dyspnea

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Painful breathing

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Adductor

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A muscle that draws a limb toward the body

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Rh condition

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In antigen antibody condition that develops when there is a difference in rH blood factor between that of the pregnant mother RH negative and the and that of the fetus RH positive

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Leukocytes

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Type of cell where antibodies are made

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Congenital anomaly

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And irregularity in a structure or organ that an infant is born with

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Recombinant DNA

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Taking a gene from one organism and inserting it into the DNA of another organism

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Syndrome

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A group of signs or symptoms that commonly occur together and indicate a particular disease or abnormal condition

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