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Combining Root Forms Flashcards

1
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Spiny; thorny

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Acanth(o)

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Light

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Actin(o), phot(o)

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Air; gas

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Aer(o)

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Pain

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Alge, algesi, algio, algo

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Starch

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Amyl(o)

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Masculine

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Andro

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Plaque; fatty substance

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Athero

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Bacilli; bacteria

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Bacilli, and bacteri(o)

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Weight; pressure

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Bar(o)

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Base

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Bas(o), basi(o)

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11
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Immature cells

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Blasto

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Bad; ill

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Cac(o)

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Calcium

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Calc(o), calci(o)

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Cancer

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Carcin(o)

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14
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Chemical

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Chem(o)

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Chlorine, green

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Chlor(o)

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Cartilage, grainy, gritty

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Chondrio, chondro

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17
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Dance

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Chore(o)

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18
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Color

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Chrom, chromat, chromo

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Time

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Chrono

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20
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Chyle, a digestive juice

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Chyl(o)

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Chyme, a semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

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Chym(o)

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Movement

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Cine(o), kin(o), kine

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Dust

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Coni(o)

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Secrete

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Crin(o)

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25
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Cold

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Cry(o)

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Hidden, obscure

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Crypt(o)

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27
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Blue

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Cyan(o)

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28
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Circle; cycle; ciliary body

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Cycl(o)

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29
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Cell

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cyt(o)

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30
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Right, toward the right

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Dextr(o)

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31
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Thirst

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Dips(o)

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32
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Back

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Dors(o)

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33
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Force ; energy

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Dynamo

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34
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Reflected sound

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Echo

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35
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Electricity; electric

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Electr(o)

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36
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Red; rosy

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Eosin (o)

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37
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Work

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Ergo

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38
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Red, redness

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Erthyr(o)

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39
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Sensation

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Esthesio

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40
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Ethmoid bone

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Ethmo

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41
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Cause

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Etio

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42
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Fiber

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Fibr(o)

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43
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Light; luminous; fluorine

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Fluor(o)

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44
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Fungus

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Fungi

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45
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Milk

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Galact (o), lact(o), lacti

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46
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Producing; being born

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Gen(o)

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47
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Old age

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Gero, geront (o)

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48
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Glucose, sugars

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Gluco, glyco

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49
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Angle

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Gonio

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49
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Granular

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Granulo

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50
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Women

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Gyn(o), gyne, gyneco

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51
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Same constant

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Home(o), homo

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52
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Hydrogen, water

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Hydr(o)

53
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Sleep

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Hypn(o), somn(o), somni

54
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Physician; treatment

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Iatr(o)

55
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Dry, scaly, fish

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Ichthy(o)

56
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Distinct; unknown

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Idio

57
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Safe; immune

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Immun(o)

58
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Potassium

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Kal(i)

59
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Nucleus

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Karyo, nucle(o)

60
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Ketone; acetone

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Ket(o), keton(o)

61
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Motion

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Kinesi(o), kineso

61
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Humpback

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Kyph(o)

62
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Lateral, to one side

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Latero

63
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Light, frail, thin

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Lepto

64
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White

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Leuk(o)

65
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Fat

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Lip(o)

66
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Stone

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Lith (o)

67
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Speech, words, thought

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Log(o)

68
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Dissolution

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Lys(o)

69
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Large; long

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Macr(o)

70
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Middle; medial plane

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Medi(o)

71
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Large million

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Meg(a), megal(o)

72
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Black; dark

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Melan(o)

73
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Middle; median

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Mes(o)

74
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Small; one-millionth; tiny

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Micr(o)

75
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Smaller; less

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Mio

76
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Structure

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Morph(o)

77
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Sleep; numbness

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Narco

78
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Death; dying

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Necr(o)

79
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Night

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Noct(i) , nyct(o)

80
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Normal

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Normo

81
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Tumor

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Oncho, onco

82
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Straight; normal

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Orth(o)

83
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Sharp ; acute; oxygen

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Oxy

84
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Thick

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Pachy

85
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Disease

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Path(o)

86
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Eating; devouring; swallowing

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Phago

87
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Drugs; medecine

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Pharmaco

88
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Sound; voice; speech

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Phon(o)

89
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Physical; natural

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Physi, physio

89
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Air gas growing

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Physo

90
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Plant

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Phyt(o)

91
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Formative plasma

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Plasma, plasmo

92
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Varied irregular

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Poikilo

93
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False

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Pseud(o)

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Pus

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Pyo

95
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Fever

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Pyreto

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Fever; fire; heat

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Pyro

97
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Radiation x-ray radius

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Radio

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Tube

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Scalping(o), styl(o)

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Split

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Schisto

100
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Split division

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Schiz(o)

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Hardness; hardening

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Scler(o)

102
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Crooked bent

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Scolio

103
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Darkness

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Scoto

104
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Iron

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Sidero

105
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Food; grain

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Sito

106
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Body

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Somat(o)

107
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Sound

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Sono

108
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Spasm

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Spasmo

109
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Round; spherical

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Spher(o)

110
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Breath; breathe

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Spir(o)

111
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Scale; squamous

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Squamo

112
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Grapelike clusters

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Staphyl(o)

113
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Narrowness

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Steno

114
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Three-dimensional

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Stere(o)

115
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Twisted chains; streptococci

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Strepto

116
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Tube

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Syring(o)

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Distant; end; complete

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Tel(o), tele(o)

117
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Monster ( as a malformed fetus)

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Terato

118
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Heat

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Therm(o)

119
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Tension; pressure

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Tono

120
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Place ; topical

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Top(o)

121
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Poison; toxin

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Tox(i), toxico, toxo

122
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Food; nutrition

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Tropho

123
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Life

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Vivi, zo(o), bio

124
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Yellow

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Xanth(o)

125
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Stranger

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Xeno

126
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Dry

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Xer(o)

127
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Sword; xiphoid

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Xiph(o)

128
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Fermentation; enzyme

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Zym(o)

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