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Diagnostic/Therapeutic Flashcards

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medic/o

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medicine, medical treatment

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Iatr/o; -iatry

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medicine/physician; medical treatment

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therap/o, therapeut/o, -therapy

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treatment

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pharmac/o, pharmaceutic/o

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drug, medicine

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diet/o

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food

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chirurgic/o

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surgery

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log/o; -logy

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word, speech; study of

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nom/o; -nomy

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law, custom; knowledge/laws of

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physi/o

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nature, growth, function

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techn/o

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art, skill

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erg/o; -ergasia

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work, function

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san/o, sanit/o

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health

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hygien/o, hygiein/o

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health

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anthrop/o

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human

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hom/o, homin/o

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human

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idi/o

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individual, distinct

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dem/o

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people

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ethn/o

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race, culture

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gen/o

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hereditary, race, kind, gene

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andr/o

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male, masculine, flower stamen

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viril/o

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male, masculine

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gyn/o, gynec/o

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female, feminine, flower ovary

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femin/o

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female, feminine

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ped/o

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child

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pueril/o

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child

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ger/o, geront/o

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elderly, old age

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presby/o

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elderly, old age

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sen/o, senil/o

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elderly, old age

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gnos/o, -gnosia, -gnosis

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a knowing, knowledge

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etio/o, aeti/o

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cause

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esthesi/o, -esthesia

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sensation, feeling

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morb/o

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disease

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nos/o

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disease

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path/o, -pathy; -path

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disease, feeling, suffering; one affected by a disease, one who treats a disease

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mort/o

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death

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thanat/o, -thanasia

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death

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necr/o

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dead body, dead

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febr/o

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fever

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pyr/o; pyret/o

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fever, fire; fever

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hem/o, hemat/o; -emia, -hemia

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blood; condition of blood

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poly-

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many

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multi-

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many

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42
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cal/o

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heat

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rubr/o

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red, redness

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erythr/o

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red, redness (red blood cells)

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tum/o

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swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

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onc/o, -oncus

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swelling, tumor, abnormal mass

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edemat/o, -edema

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swelling

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troph/o, -trophy

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nourishment, growth

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tabet/o

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wasting

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cel/o, kel/o, -cele

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hernia, protrusion

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cyt/o

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cell

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cell/o, cellul/o

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cell

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cancer/o; cancr/o

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cancer, crab; spreading ulcer

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carcin/o

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cancer, crab

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mal/o; malign/o

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bad, faulty; cancerous, becoming worse

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kak/o, cac/o

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bad, faulty

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phlog/o

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inflammation

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dolor/o

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pain

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noc/o, noxi/o

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pain

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alg/o
-algia
-algesia

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pain
painful condition
sense of pain

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odyn/o
-odynia

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pain
painful condition

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acu/o
acut/o

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needle, needlelike
sharp, pointed

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oxy/o
-oxia

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sharp, quick, acid, oxygen
oxygen condition

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chrno/o

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time (prolonged)

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pur/o, purul/o

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pus

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py/o

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pus

67
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rhe/o
-rrhea

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flow
discharge (of fluid)

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-rhexis

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rupture

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-rrhagia, -rrhage
rhagad/o

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rupture with discharge of fluid (usually blood)
tear, fissure, cleft

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-penia

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decrease, deficiency

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mega-, megal/o, -megaly

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enlargement, large

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micr/o

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small

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lys/o, -lysis

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breakdown, dissolving

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malac/o, -malacia

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soft, abnormal softening

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-ptosis

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downward, displacement, prolapse

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-ectasis, -ectasia

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dilation, expansion

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schiz/o, -schisis

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splitting, cleft

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stas/o, stat/o, -stasis; -stat

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standing, stoppage, cause to stand
device for stopping/ceasing something

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poiet/o, -poiesis

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to make, produce

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plast/o
-plast
-plasia

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formed, molded
forming cell or organelle
condition of formation, growth

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fac/o, fic/o, fact/o, fect/o

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to make, cause

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gen/o, -gen

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to become, be produced

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graph/o
-graph
-graphy

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writing
device for image/written record or record itself
process of recording/writing

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grammat/o
-gram

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something written/drawn
record/image of something

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metr/o
-meter
-metry

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measure, measurement
measuring instrument
process of measuring

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-tomy
-ectomy
-tome

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incision
excision
device for making an incision

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-stomy

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surgical creation of an opening (stoma)

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-plasty

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surgical reconstruction

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-rrhaphy

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surgical suturing

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-pexy

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surgical fixation

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-tripsy

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crushing

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-scopy
-scope

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examination (with device)
device to examine body

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-desis

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surgical binding, fusion

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-centesis

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surgical puncture for aspiration

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-section

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cutting

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-clasty

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surgical breaking

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-trypesis

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surgical boring/hole

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tom/o

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cut, a section

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stom/o, stomat/o

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mouth, opening

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pex/o, -pexis

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fixation, binding

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rhaph/o
rhaphid/o

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seam, suture
needle, needle-like

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clast/o
-clast
-clasis, -clasia

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broken, breaking
break of things
breaking of something

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scop/o

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to view

104
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secto/o, sec/o

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cut, a section

105
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cis/o, -cide

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kill, cut

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tript/o

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crushing, grinding

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trepan/o, trephin/o
trypan/o

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borer, drilling
borer; parasitic protozoa genus

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