Elements chapters 1-14 Flashcards by Ellie Siddoway

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idi/o

A

peculiar to one organ/individual

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-ago

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abnormal condition, disease

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-desis

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to bind, tie together

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fasci/o

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fascia, fibrous band

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clon/o

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violent action

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-plegia

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paralysis, stroke

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coron/o

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coronary, crown

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-crasia

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a mixture or blending

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isch/o

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to hold back

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bacill/o

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rod-shaped bacterium

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strept/o

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twisted chain

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-facient

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making, producing

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staphyl/o

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clusters, bunch of grapes

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-coccus

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spherical bacteria

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meta-

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change, beyond, subsequent to, behind, after, next

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vit/o, vit/a

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life

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viti/o

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blemish

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fibros/o

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fibrous connective tissue

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capn/o

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carbon dioxide, sooty or smoky appearance

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-ptysis

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spitting

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-ectasis

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stretching, dilation, enlargement

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hiat/o

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opening

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metabol/o

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change

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hal/o, halit/o

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breath

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de-

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down, lack of, from, not, removal

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intussuscept/o

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take up or receive within

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-tripsy

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to crush

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myel/o

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spinal cord, bone marrow

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caus/o

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burning, burn

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-lepsy

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seizure, stroke

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estet/o

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feeling, nervous sensation, sense of perception

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-tropic

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having an affinity for

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phac/o, phak/o

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lens of eye

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mi/o

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smaller, less

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pinn/i

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external ear, auricle

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tars/o

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tarsus (ankle bone), instep, edge of the eyelid

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kerat/o

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horny, hard, cornea

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macul/o

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spot

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papill/o

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nipple-like

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trop/o

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turn, change

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ichthy/o

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dry, scaly

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kel/o

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growth, tumor

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pedicul/o

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louse, lice

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pil/i, pil/o

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hair

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prurit/o

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itching

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-aria

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connected with

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hirsut/o

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hairy, rough

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-phyma

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growth

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urtic/o

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nettle, rash, hives

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-ula

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small, little

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koil/o

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hollow or concave

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phor/o

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carry, bear, movement

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ecchym/o

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pouring out of juice

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hypophys/o

A

pituitary gland

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phe/o

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dusky

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-para

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to give birth

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loch/i

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child birth, confinement

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-pareunia

A

sexual intercourse

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-parous

A

having borne one or more children

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episi/o

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vulva

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cel/o

A

abdomen, belly

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phall/i

A

penis