Med Term, Combining Roots And Forms Flashcards

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Actin(o)

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Light

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Acanth(o)

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Spiny; thorny

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Aer(o)

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Air; gas

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Alge, algesi, algio, algo

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Pain

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Amyl(o)

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Starch

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Andro

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Masculine

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Athero

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Plaque; fatty substance

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Bacill(i)

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Bacilli; bacteria

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Bacteri(o)

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Bacteria

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Bar(o)

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Weight; pressure

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Bas(o), basi(o)

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Base

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Bio-

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Life

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Blasto

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Immature cells

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Cac(o)

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Bad; ill

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Calc(o), calci(o)

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Calcium

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Carcin(o)

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Cancer

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Chem(o)

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Chemical

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Chlor(o)

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Chlorine, green

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Chondrio, chondro

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Cartilage, grainy, gritty

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Chore(o)

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Dance

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Chrom, chromat, chromo

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Color

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Chrono

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Time

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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, semi fluid production of chyme in the stomach

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Cine(o)

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Movement

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Coni(o)

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Dust

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Crin(o)

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Secrete

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Cry(o)

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Cold

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Crypt(o)

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Hidden; obscure

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Cyan(o)

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Blue

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Cycl(o)

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Circle; cycle; cystic duct

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Cyt(o)

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Cell

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Dextr(o)

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Right, toward the right

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Dips(o)

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Thirst

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Dors(o), dorsi

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Back

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Dynamo

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Force; energy

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Echo

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Reflected sound

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Electr(o)

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Electricity; electric

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Eosin(o)

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Red; rosey

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Ergo

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Work

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Erythr(o)

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Red, redness

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Esthesio

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Sensation, perception

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Ethmo

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Ethmoid bone

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Etio

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Cause

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Fibr(o)

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Fiber

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Fluor(o)

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Light; luminous; fluorine

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Fungi

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Fungus

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Galact(o)

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Milk

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Gen(o)

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Producing; being born

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Gero, geront(o)

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Old age

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Gluco

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Glucose

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Glyco

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Sugars

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Gonio

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Angle

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Granulo

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Granular

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Gyn(o), gyne, gyneco

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Women

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Home(o), homo

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Same; constant

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Hydr(o)

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Hydrogen, water

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Hypn(o)

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Sleep

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Iatr(o)

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Physician; treatment

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Ichthy(o)

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Dry; scaly; fish

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Idio

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Distinct; unknown

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Immun(o)

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Safe; immune

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Kal(I)

A

Potassium

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Karyo

A

Nucleus

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Ket(o), keton(o)

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Ketone; acetone

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Kin(o), kine

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Movement

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Kinesi(o), kineso

A

Motion

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Kyph(o)

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Humpback

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Lact(o), lacti

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Milk

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Latero

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Lateral, to one side

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Lepto

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Light, frail, thin

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Leuk(o)

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White

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Lip(o)

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Fat

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Lith(o)

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Stone

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Log(o)

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Speech, words, thought

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Lys(o)

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Dissolution

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Macr(o)

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Large; long

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Medi(o)

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Middle; medial plane

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Meg(a), megal(o)

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Large; million

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Melan(o)

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Black; dark

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Mes(o)

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Middle; median

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Micr(o)

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Small; one-millionth; 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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Narcp

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Sleep; numbness

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Necr(o)

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Death; dying

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Noct(i)

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Night

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Normo

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Normal

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Nucle(o)

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Nucleus

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Nyct(o)

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Night

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Oncho, onco

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Tumor

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Orth(o)

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Stright; normal

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Oxy

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Sharp; acute; oxygen

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Pachy

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Thick

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Path(o)

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Disease

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Phago

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Eating; devouring; swallowing

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Pharmaco

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Drugs; medicine

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Phon(o)

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Sound; voice; speech

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Phot(o)

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Light

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Physi, physio

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Physical; natural

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Physo

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Air; gas; growing

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Phyt(o)

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Plant

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Plasma, plasmo

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Formative; plasma

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Poikilo

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varied; irregular

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Pseud(o)

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False

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Pyo

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Pus

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Pyreto

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Fever

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Pyro

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Fever; fire; heat

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Radio

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Radiation; X-ray; radius

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Salping(o)

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Tube

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Schisto

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Split

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Schiz(o)

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Split; division

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Scler(o)

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Hardness; hardening

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Scolio

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Crooked; bent

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Scoto

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Darkness

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Sidero

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Iron

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Sito

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Food; grain

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Somn(o), somni

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Sleep

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Sono

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Sound

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Spasmo

A

Spasm

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Spher(o)

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Round; spherical

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Spir(o)

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Breath; breathe

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Squamo

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Scale; squamous

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Staphyl(o)

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Grape like clusters

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Steno

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Narrowness

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Stere(o)

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Three-dimensional

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Strepto

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Twisted chains; streptococci

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Styl(o)

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Peg-shaped

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Syring(o)

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Tube

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Tel(o), tele(o)

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Distant; end; complete

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Terato

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Monster (as a malformed fetus)

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Therm(o)

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Heat

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Tono

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Tension; pressure

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Top(o)

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Place; topical

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Tox(i), toxico, toxo

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Poison; toxin

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Tropho

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Food; nutrition

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Vivi

A

Life

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Xanth(o)

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Yellow

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Xeno

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Stranger

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Xer(o)

A

Dry

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Xiph(o)

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Sword; xiphoid

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Zo(o)

A

Life

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Zym(o)

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Fermentation; enzyme