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1
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Aer/o

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Air, Gas

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Ather/o

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Plaque, Fatty substance (inside of a blood vessel)

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blast/o

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Immature cells

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Calc/o, Calci/o

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Calcium

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5
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Chondrio, Chondro

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Cartilage, Grainy, Gritty

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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 Produciton of chyme in the stomach

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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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Ethm/o

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Ethmoid bone

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Gli/o

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Glue

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Gluc/o

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Glucose

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Glyc/o

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Sugars

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Hydr/o

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Hydrogen, Water

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Ket/o, Keton/o

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Ketone, Acetone

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Lip/o

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Fat (outside of a blood vessel)

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17
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Nucle/o

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Nucleus

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18
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Plasma, Plasmo

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Formative, Plasma

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19
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Salping/o

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Tube

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20
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Sider/o

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Iron

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21
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Somat/o

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Body

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22
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Squam/o

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Scale, Squamous (meaning Scaly)

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Syring/o

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Tube

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24
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Algesi/o, Algi/o, Alg/o

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Pain

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25
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Cry/o

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Cold

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Dips/o

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Thirst

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27
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Esthesi/o

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Sensation, Perception

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Kin/o, Kine

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Movement, motion

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29
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Kinesi/o, Kines/o

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Motion

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30
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Phon/o

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Sound, Voice, Speech

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31
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hott/o

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Light

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32
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Son/o

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Sound

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33
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Therm/o

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Heat

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34
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Acanth/o

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Spiny, Thorny

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35
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Andr/o

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Masculine

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36
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Chlor/o

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Chlorine, green

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37
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Chrom/o, Chromat/o

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Color

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38
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Crypt/o

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Hidden, Obscure

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39
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Cyan/o

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Blue

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40
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Eosin/o

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Red

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41
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Erythr/o

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Red, Redness

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42
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Granul/o

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Granular

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43
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Gyn/o, Gyne, Gynec/o

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Women

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44
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Home/o, Hom/o

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Same, Constant

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45
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Ichthy/o

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Dry, Scaly, Fishy

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46
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Idi/o

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Distinct, Unknown

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47
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Immun/o

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Safe, Immune

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48
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Leuk/o

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White

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49
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Macr/o

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Large, Long

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50
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Meg/a, Megal/o

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Large, Million

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51
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Melan/o

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Black, Dark

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Micr/o

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Small, 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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norm/o

56
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Physi/o

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Physical, Natural

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Pseud/o

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Scler/o

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Hardness, Hardening

59
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Scholi/o

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Crooked, Bent

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Spher/o

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Round, Spherical

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Staphyl/o

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Grapelike Clusters

62
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Sten/o

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Narrowness

63
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Strept/o

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Twisted chains, Streptococci

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Terat/o

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Monster (as a malformed fetus)

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Xanth/o

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Bacill/o

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Bacilli, Bacteria

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Bacteri/o

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Carcin/o

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Kyph/o

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Onch/o, Onc/o

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Path/o

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Pyr/o

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Fever, fire, Heat

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Schist/o

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Schiz/o

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Split, Division

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Spasm/o

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Anteri/o

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Dextr/o

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Right, Toward the right

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Dors/o

79
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Goni

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Later/o

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Lateral, To one side

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Medi/o

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Middle, Medial Plane

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Mes/o

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Middle, Median

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Orth/o

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Straight, Normal

84
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Top/o

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Place, Topical

85
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Crin/o

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Gen/o

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Producing, Being Born

87
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Hypn/o

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Log/o

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Speech, Words, Thought

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Narc/o

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Sleep, Numbness

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Phag/o

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Eating, Devouring, Swallowing

91
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Somn/o, Somni

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Spir/o

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Breath; Breathe

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actin/o

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Amyl/o

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Bar/o

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Weight, Pressure

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Bas/o, Basi/o

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Bio

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Chem/o

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Chrono

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Coni/o

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Dyna, Dynam/o

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Force, Energy

101
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Cycl/o

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Circle, Cycle

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Echo

A

Reflected Sound

103
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Electr/o

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Electricity

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Eti/o

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Fibr/o

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Fluor/o

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Light, Luminous, Flourine

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Fungi

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Galact/o

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Ger/o, Geront/o

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Lact/o, Lacti

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Lith/o

112
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Lys/o

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Dissolution, Destruction

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Necr/o

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Death, Dying

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Noct/i

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Nyct/o

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Pharmaco

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Drugs, Medicine

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Phyt/o

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Py/o

119
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Radio

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Radiation, X-ray, Radius

120
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Ster/o

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Three-dimensional

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Tel/o, Tele/o

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Distant, End, Complete

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Ton/o

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Tension, Pressure

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Toxi, Toxic/o, Tox/o

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Poison, Toxin

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Troph/o

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Food, Nutrition

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