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1
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Carpo

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Wrist bones

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Cibo

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Meals

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Ciso

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To cut

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Costo

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Rib

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Cutaneo

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Skin

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Dactylo

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Fingers, toes

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Ducto

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To lead, carry

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Flexo

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To bend

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Furco

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Forking, branching

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Glosso

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Tongue

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Glyco

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Sugar

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Immuno

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Protection

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Morpho

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Shape, form

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Morto

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Death

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Nati

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Birth

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Necto

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To bind, tie, connect

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Normo

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Rule, order

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Oxo

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Oxygen

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Pubo

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Pubis

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Sepso

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Infection

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Somno

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Sleep

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Sono

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Sound

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Theo

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To put, place

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Thelo, thelio

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Nipple

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Thyro

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Thyroid

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Topo

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Place, position, location

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Toxo

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Poison

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Tracheo

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Windpipe, trachea

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Urethro

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Urethra

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-blast

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Embryonic, immature

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-crine

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To secrete

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-drome

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To run

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-fusion

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Coming together, pour

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-gen

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Substance that produces

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-lapse

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To 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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To 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 (mental state)

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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, drooping, 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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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

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Cata-

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Down

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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-, ecto-

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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, away from

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Hemo-

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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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Change, beyond

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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-

A

One

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