Combining Forms Flashcards

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Tongue

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Gloss

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Pain

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Algia

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Enlargement

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Megalia

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Vein

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phleb

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Dilation/expansion

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Ectasia

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Vertebra

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Spondyl

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Softening or loss of consistency in an organ or tissue

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Malacia

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Tonsil

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Tonsill

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Excision/ removal

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Ectomia

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Water/watery

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hydr

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Morbid dread or fear

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Phobia

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Treatment

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Therapia

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Plant/ herb

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Phyt

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Female

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Gynaec/ gyn

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Science

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Logia

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Uterine tube

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Salping

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Eyelid

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Blephar

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Suture

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Rrhaphia

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Jaw

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Gnath/ gnathia

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Backward or behind

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Retro

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Gingiva/ gum

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Gingiv- ul

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Incision

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Tomia

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Gland

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Aden

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Disease

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Pathia

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The Brest, the mastoid

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Mast

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Life

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Bi

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Examination

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Opsia

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Muscle

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My

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Weakness/ debility

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Asthenia

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Lack of tone or tension

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Atonia

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Lack of nourishment

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Atrophia

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Nerve

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Neur

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Eye

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Ophthalm, ophthalmia

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Stroke/ paralysis

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Plegia

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Finger

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Dactyl/ dactylia

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Examination

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Scopia

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Many

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Poly

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Together or with

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Syn

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Nose

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Rhin

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Plastic surgery

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Plastica

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Uterus

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Metr/ hyster

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Ovary

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Oophor

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Navel/ belly button/ umbilicus

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Omphal

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Stomach

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Gastr

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Cerebrum

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Encephal

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Brain

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Encephalia

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Palate

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Uran/ palat

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Intestine

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Enter/ enteria

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Painful/ difficult or faulty

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Dys

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Ligament

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(Syn)desm

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White

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Leuk

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Red

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Erythr

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53
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Cell

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Cyt- Cytus

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54
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Deficiency

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Penia

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Something written down/ count

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Gramma

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Black

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Melan

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Urine

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Ur- Uria

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Tissue

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Hist

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Yellow

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Xanth

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Vision

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Opsia

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Colouring

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Chromia

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A male human being

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Andr

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Pain

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Alg- algia

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Head

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Cephal

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Lung: air

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Pneumon/ pneum/ pneumat

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Kidney

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Nephar

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Fixation, usually surgical

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Pexia

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Inflammation

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Itits

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Incision

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Tomia

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A human being

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Anthrop

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Heat

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Therm/ thermia

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Deficient/ below normal

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Hypo

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Therapy/ treatment

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Therapia

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Blood

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Haem/ haemat/ aemia

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Affinity for/ craving for

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Philia

76
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Mouth

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Stomat

77
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Pus/ accumulation of pus

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Py

78
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Stream/ current/ flow

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Rrhoea

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Spleen

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Splen

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Cartilage

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Chondr

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A tumour or neoplasm

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Oma

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Wound/ injury/ trauma

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Traumat

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Body

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Somat

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Blood or lymph vessel

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Angi

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A writing/ a description/ a radiological image

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Graphia

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A joint/ an articulation

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Arthr

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Liver

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Hepat

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Foot

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Pod

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Pain

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Odynia

90
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A Sinking down or prolapse of an organ

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Ptosis

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Vagina

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Colp

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The internal organs

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Splanchn(o)

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Cirrhosis

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Cirrhosis

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Inspiration of nervous and other structures

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Sclerosis

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Bladder

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Cyst

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Bile

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Chole

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A stone/ calculus/ calcification

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Lithiasis/ lith/ lithus

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Any disease caused by a fungus

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Mycosis

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Puncture

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Centesis

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The abdomen/ the loins

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Lapar

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Paralysis/ stroke

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Plegia

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Relating to memory

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Mnesis/ mnesia

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The faculty of perceiving and recognising: knowledge

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Gnosis/ gnosia

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A stricture/ a narrowing

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Stenosis

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Slowing/ stoppage/ stagnation of blood or other fluids: arrest of bleeding

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Stasis

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Rupture

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Rrhexis

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An origin/ a beginning process

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Genesis

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Organ

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Organ

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Death

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Thanasia, thanat

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Good/ well

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Eu

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Tooth

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Odont/ odontia

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Correct or right

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Orth(o)

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Lens

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Phak/ phakia

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Bone

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Ost(e)

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Nail

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Onych

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Fungus disease

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Mycosis

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Loosening

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Lysis

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Eating/ devouring

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Phagia

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Mind/ intellect

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Phren, phrenia

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Split/ cleft/ division

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Schizo

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Ear

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Ot

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Heart

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Cardia

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Rapid

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Tachy

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Slow

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Brady

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Month

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Men

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Feeling of sense

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Aesthesia

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Hearing

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Acus, acusis

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Sense of taste

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Geusia

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Sense of smell

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Osmia

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Condition of vision

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Blepsia

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Appetite

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Orexia

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Hand

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Ch(e)ir, ch(e)iria

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Knee

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Gon

134
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Horny tissue, the cornea

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Kerat

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Plastic surgery

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Plastica

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Vomiting

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Emesis

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Sinking, falling down

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Ptosis

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The internal organs

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Splanchn(o)

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Cold

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Cry(o)

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Loss of sensation

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Anaesthesia

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Abnormal sensitivity( to touch, pain or other sensory stimuli)

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Hyperaesthesia

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Deafness

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Anacuis=surditas

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Lack of sense of taste

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Ageusia

144
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Lack of sense of smell

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Anosmia

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Shortsightedness

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Myopia

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Longsightedness

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Hypermetropia

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Blindness

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Ablepsia

148
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Lack of appetite

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Anorexia

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Surgery

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Chirurgia

150
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Inflammation of the knee joint

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Gonarthritis

151
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Thickening of the horny tissue of the epidermis

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Hyperkeratosis

152
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Implantation of a cornea

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Keratoplastica

153
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Inflammation of the cornea

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Keratitis

154
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Excessive vomiting

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Hyperemesis

155
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Sinking of the internal organs

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Splanchnoptosis

156
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Pain caused by cold

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Cryalgesia

157
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Sensitiveness to cold

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Cryaesthesia

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Inability to perceive cold

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Cryanaesthesia

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Use of cold in the treatment of diseases

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Cryotherapia

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Eye

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Ophthalmos

161
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Kidney

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Nephros

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Cartilage

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Chondros

163
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Penis

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Phallos

164
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Vagina

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Colpos

165
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Marrow, bone marrow

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Myelos

166
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Stone, calculus

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Lithos

167
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Navel, umbilicus

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Omphalos

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Fat, fatty tissue

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Lipos

169
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Breast

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Mastos

170
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Faeces

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Copros

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Rectum

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Proctos