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combining forms 1 Flashcards

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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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aeo(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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male

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athero

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plaque (fatty substance)

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bacill(i)

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bacilli

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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

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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 (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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cyst(o), cysti

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bladder, cyst,

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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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ethesio

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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)

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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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gonio

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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), home

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same, constant

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hydr(o)

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water, wet,

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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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individual, own, distinct; (unknown origin)

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immun(o)

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safe; immune

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kal(i)

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karyo

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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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kinesi(o), kineso

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kyph(o)

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lact(o), lacti

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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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lip(o)

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lith(o)

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log(o)

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speech, words, thought

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lys(o)

A

dissolution

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macr(o)

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medi(o)

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meg(a), megal(o)

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melan(o)

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black (dark)

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mes(o)

78
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micr(o)

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mio

80
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morph(o)

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form, 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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normo

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nucle(o)

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nyct(o)

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oncho, onco

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orth(o)

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straight, normal

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oxy

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pachy

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path(o)

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phago

93
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pharmaco

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phon(o)

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phot(o)

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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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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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pyo

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pyreto

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pyro

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radio

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salping(o)

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schisto

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schiz(o)

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scler(o)

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hardening or hardness

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scolio

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crooked (bent)

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scoto

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sidero

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sito

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somat(o)

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somn(o), somni

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sono

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spasmo

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spher(o)

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round (spherical)

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spir(o)

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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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strepto

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twisted chains

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styl(o)

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peg-shaped

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syring(o)

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tel(o),tele(o)

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terato

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monster (as a malformed fetus)

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therm(o)

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tono

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top(o)

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tox(i), toxico, toxo

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tropho

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vivi

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xanth(o)

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xeno

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xer(o)

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xiph(o)

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sword (xiphoid)

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zo(o)

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zym(o)

A

fermentation

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