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Root words Flashcards

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Acanth (o)

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Spiny; thorny

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Actin (o)

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Light

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Alge, algesi, algio, algo

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Pain

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Aer (o)

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gas; air

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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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wight; 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, chomat, 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, semifluid 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; ciliary body

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Cyst (o), cysti

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bladder, cyst, cystic duct

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Cyt (o)

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cell

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Dextr (o)

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towards the right, 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; rosy

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Ergo

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Work

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42
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Erythr (o)

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Red, redness

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Estesio

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Sensation, perception

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44
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Ethmok

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Ethmoid bone

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45
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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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49
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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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51
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Gero, geront (o)

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old age

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52
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Gluco

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glucose

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53
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Glyco

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sugars

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54
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Gonio

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Angle

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55
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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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59
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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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Ichtyhy (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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immune; safe

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Kal (i)

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potassium

65
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Karyo

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Nucleus

66
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Ket (o), keton (o)

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Ketone, acetone

67
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kin (o), kine

A

movement

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Kinesi (o), kineso

A

motion

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Kyph (o)

A

humpback

70
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Lact (o), lacti

A

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)

A

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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Narco

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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

A

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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ortho (o)

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straight; 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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Plama, plasmo

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formative; plasma

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Poikiolo

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varied; irregular

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Pseud (o)

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false

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pyo

A

pus

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pyreto

A

fever

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pyro

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fever; fire; heat

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Radio

A

radiation; x-ray; radius

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Salping (o)

A

tube

112
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Schisto

A

Split

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Shiz (o)

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Split; division

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Scler (o)

A

hardness; Harding

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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

A

food; grain

119
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Somat (o)

A

body

120
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Somn (o), somni

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sleep

121
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sono

A

sound

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Spasmo

A

spasm

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Spher (o)

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round; spherical

124
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Spir (o)

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breath; breathe

125
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Squamo

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Scale; squamous

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Staphyl (o)

A

grape like clusters

127
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Steno

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narrowness

128
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Stere (o)

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three-dimensional

129
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Styl (o)

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peg shaped

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Sterpto

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twisted chains; streptococci

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Syring (o)

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tube

132
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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 (malformed fetus)

134
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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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poision; toxin

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Tropho

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food; nutrition

139
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vivi

A

life

140
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xanth (o)

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yellow

141
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xeno

A

stranger

142
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Xer (o)

A

dry

143
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Xiph (o)

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sword; xiphoid

144
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zo (o)

A

life

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zym (o)

A

fermentation; enzyme

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