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Ab-

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Away from

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Acoust/I

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Hearing

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Apo-

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Above or upon

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Audi-

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Hearing

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Aur/i-

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Ear

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Blepharo-

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Eyelid

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Canth/o-

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Corner of eye

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Cataract

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Waterfall or cloudiness

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Catarrh-

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To flow down

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Cerebr/o

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Brain

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Ceru-

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Wax

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Chalaz/io-

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Hailstone

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Cochle/o-

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Snail-like

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Comato-

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Deep sleep

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Concuss/I-

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Violent shaking

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-conis

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Cone-shaped

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Conjunctiv/o-

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Joined together

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Convolo-

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To roll together

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Corne/o-

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Cornea or horn shaped

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Cortic/o

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Bark, rind, cortex

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-cusis

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Hearing

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Cycl/o-

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Circle

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Dacryo-

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Tear

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Dendr/o-

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Tree-shaped

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Dura-

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Hard

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-ellum

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Lesser or smaller

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Encephalo

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Within head(brain)

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Esthes/I

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Physical feeling

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Front/o-

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Forehead or before

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Glauc/o-

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Waterfall or gray

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Gli/o-

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Glue or glue like

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Hypn/o-

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Sleep

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Ide/o-

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Idea thoughts emotion image

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34
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Mallus/incus/stapes

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Hammer/anvil/stirrup (middle ear bones)

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Intra-

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Within

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Ir/o-

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Rainbow

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-ites

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Dropsy or drooping

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Junctiv/o-

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Joining or to join

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Kerat/o-

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Cornea or horny

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Labyrinth

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Maze (ear-balance)

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-lepsy

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Seizure or convulsions

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Malle/o

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Hammer

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-mania, mani/o

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Madness

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Meat/o-

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Opening

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Mening/o

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Membrane

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Ment/o-

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Mind

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Mydri/o-

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To widen

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Myring/o-

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eardrum

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Narc/o-

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Sleep

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Nares

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Nose opening

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Nas/o-

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Nose

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Neur/o-

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Nerve

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Noct/I-, Nycto-

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Night or blind

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-noia

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Mind

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Ocul/o-

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Eye

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Olfact/o-, Osmo-

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Smelling or smell

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Opthalm/o-

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Eye or eyeball

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Opto-, opia-, -opsy

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Vision, sight, eye

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Orb-, orbit/o-

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Circle or dish

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Ot/o-

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Ear

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Palpebra-

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Eyelid

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Palsy

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Slight or moderate paralysis

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-paresis

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Paralysis

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Petit

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Little illness

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Phob/o-

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Fear

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Phon/o-

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Voice or sound

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Phor/o-

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Feeling(mental)

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Pia-

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Gentle

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Pinn/a-

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Feather or feather like

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-pleg/ia

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Paralysis

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-plexy

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Paralysis

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Poli/o-

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Gray

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Pons

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Bridge

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Presbyo-

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Old

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Propri/o-

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Property (nerve stimuli or information)

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Psych/o-

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Mind

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Pteryg/o

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Winged

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Pupill/o-

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Pupil

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Radic/o, radicul/o

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Nerve root or spinal nerve

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Retina

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Net or net-like

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Rhin/o-

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Nose

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Schiz/o-

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Split or splitting

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Scot/o-

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Darkness

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Senil/e-

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Old

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Somn/o-

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Sleep

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Staped/o

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Stirrup

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Strabism/o

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Squinting

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Sty/e

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Raised

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Tempor/o

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Temple

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Theo-

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God

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Tinnitus

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Jingling tinkling ringing

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Trochle/o-

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Pulley or pulley like

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Tympan/o-

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Eardrum

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Typh/o-

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Stupor

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Uve/a-

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Grape

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Vertigo

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Whirling

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Xen/o-

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Strange or foreign

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