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Medical word roots Flashcards

1
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-algia

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Word ending indicating pain

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-cele

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Swelling, hernia

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-cele

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Hernia, swelling

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-cid or -cide

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To cut, kill, or destroy

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-ectomy

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outside, removal

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-emia

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Blood

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-genic, -gen, or -geny

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beginning, producing

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-itis

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Inflammation

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-logy

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Study

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-lysis, lyso-

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destruction

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-oid

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pertaining to, resemble

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-oma

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Tumor or neoplasm

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-opsis or -opsy

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Sight

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-osis

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Pathologic condition

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-plasia

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Growth

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-plasm or -plasma

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formed

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-plasty

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Molding or formation

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-rrhagia or rrhea

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Flowing

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-scopy

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Viewing

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-stasis or stat-

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Stagnation, standing still

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-trophy, -trophic

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nutrition, growth

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acro-

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extremity

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Adeno-

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Pertaining to a gland

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Allo-

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Different, other

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angio-

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blood or lymph vessels

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angio-

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Cardiovascular or lymphatic vessels

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Anti

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Against

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arth- or arthro

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Joints

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aut- or auto-

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Self

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Bi

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Two; double

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brady-

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slow

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32
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Carcin-

A

Crab (cancer) i.e. a carcinogen is a cancer triggering agent

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Cardio-

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The heart

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cep- or ceph-

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Head, brain

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cervi- or cervico-

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Neck

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chole-

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bile or gall

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chond/chondro

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cartilage

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circum-

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around, surrounding, or encircling

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co-, com- or con-

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With or together

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contra-

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against; opposite

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contra-

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Against

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42
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crypto-

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Hidden

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43
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crypto-

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Hidden

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44
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cyte/cyto

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cell

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45
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demo-

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People

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46
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derm-

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skin

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dia-

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Through

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dynia-

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Pain, anguish

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dys-

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difficulty

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ecto- or -ectomy

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Outside ; Removal

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end- or endo-

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Within; inside

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epi-

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Upon; on; above

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53
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Erythr-

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Red

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extra-

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outside; beyond; in addition to

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Glyco-

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Denoting relationship to sugars

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hema

A

blood

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Hepat-

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Liver

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meno

A

Month

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hist/histio

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Tissue

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homeo- or homo-

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unchanging; the same; steady

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Hydro-

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Water

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Hyper-

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Above or to much of

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hypo-

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Below, too little

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Hypo-

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Below, too little

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infra

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below, beneath

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inter-

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within, between

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Intra

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Within ; inside

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ipsi-

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Same or self

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iso-

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Equal or similar

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Kine-

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Movement

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lepsis

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seizure

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Leuko

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white blood cell

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lipo-

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fat

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litho-

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Rock

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Macro-

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Large

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Mega-

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Large

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metr

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uterus, mother

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micro-

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Small

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myel-

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spinal cord or bone marrow

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narco-

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stupor

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neo-

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New

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nephro-

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kidney

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Neuro-

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Nerve

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onco-

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Tumor

85
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orchi

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testis or testicle

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osteo-

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Bone

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Para

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Near; beside; beyond

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para-

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near; beside; beyond

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Path/patho

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Disease

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Patho-

A

Disease

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penia

A

deficiency or lack

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peri-

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Around

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peri-

A

Around

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phagia

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eating

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-philia

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love; liking

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Phleb-

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Vein

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physio-

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nature

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phyto

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plant

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Poly-

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Many

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pre- or pro-

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Before ; In front of

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Pseudo-

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False

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psyche-

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mind;mental

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Radix

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Root

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Ren-

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Kidney

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ren-

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Kidney

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retro-

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backward, behind

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rhino-

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nose

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sarco-

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flesh

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scler- or sclero-

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the white outer coating of the eye

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Soma- or Somato-

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Body

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Spondy-

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Spine

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Sten-

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Narrow

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stoma

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mouth

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Sub-

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Below

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Super/supra

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Above or over

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syn- or sym-

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together, with

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Syn/sym

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With

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therm-

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of heat

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thrombo

A

clot

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Trans-

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Through, across, beyond

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vaso-

A

Blood vessel

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ony(x)-

A

nail

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-oma

A

tumor

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post-

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after; beyond

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ante-

A

before

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-graphy

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recording; writing

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micro–

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small

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hemi-

A

half

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-gen

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beginning; producing

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gastr- or gastro-

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stomach

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