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Rrhea

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Flow, discharge

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Tomy

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Incision, to cut open

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Sis

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State of; condition

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y

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Process; condition.

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Phoria

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To bear, carry; feeling (mental state)

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Physis

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To grow

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Plasia

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Development, formation, growth

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Stasis

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Stopping, controlling

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Trophy

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Development, nourishment

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Plasm

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Structure or formation

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Pnea

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Breathing

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Ptosis

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Falling, drooping, prolapse

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Or

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One who

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Oxia

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Oxygen

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Lysis

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Breakdown
Destruction
Separation

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Meter

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To measure

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Mission

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To send

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Gen

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Substances that produces

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Lapse

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To slide, fall, sag

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ion

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Process

“ExcisION”
Process of cutting

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Blast

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Embryonic, immature cell

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Crine

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To secrete

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Drome

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To run

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Genic

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Pertaining to producing
Produced by
Produced in

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Globin

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Protein

“Hem/o/globin”
Protein in the blood

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Gram

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Record

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Ectomy

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Excision

Removal

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Emia

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Blood condition

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Algia

Dynia

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Pain

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Cyte

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Cell

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Osis

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Condition; usually abnormal

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Pathy

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Disease condition.

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Scope

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Instrument to visually examine

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Scopy

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Process of visually examining

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Oma

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Tumor

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Opsy

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Process of viewing

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Itis

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Inflammation

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Logy

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Study of

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cele

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hernia

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centesis

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surgical puncture to remove fluid

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coccus

cocci

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berry-shaped bacterium

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genesis

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condition of producing, forming

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graph

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instrument to record

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graphy

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process of recording

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malacia

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softening

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megaly

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enlargement

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penia

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deficiency

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phobia

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fear

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plasty

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surgical repair

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sclerosis

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hardening

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stomy

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opening to form a mouth (new opening)

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therapy

A

treatment

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er

A

one who

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  • ia

- ema

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condition

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-ist

A

specialist

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ole

A

little, small

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um, ium

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structure, tissue

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us

A

structure, substance

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ac, iac
al, ic
ar, ical
ary, eal
ous, tic
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pertaining to

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oid

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resembling, derived from

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ose

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pertaining to, full of

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fusion

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coming together, to pour

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clast

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to break

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listhesis

A

slipping

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porosis

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pore, passage

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tome

A

instrument to cut

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desis

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to bind, tie together

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stenosis

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narrowing

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asthenia

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lack of strength

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Fferent

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Carrying

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-Sonia

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Smell

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-ptysis

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Spitting

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-sphyxia

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Pulse

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-thorax

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Pleural cavity; chest

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-ase

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enzyme

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-chezia

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defecation, elimination of wastes

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-iasis

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abnormal

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-prandial

A

meal

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  • ectasis

- ectasia

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dilation, (dilatation), widening/stretching

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-emesis

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vomiting

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-pepsia

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digestion

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-phagia

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eating, swallowing

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-plasty

A

surgical repair

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  • rrhage

- rrhagia

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bursting forth (of blood)

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-rrhaphy

A

suture

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-spasm

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involuntary contraction of muscles

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-tresia

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opening

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-stalsis

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Contraction

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-apheresis

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removal, a carrying away

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-cytosis

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abnormal condition of cells

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-lytic

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pertaining to destruction

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-philia

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attraction for (an increase in cell numbers)

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-phoresis

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carrying, transmission

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  • poiesis

- poietin

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formation

substance that forms

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-agon

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assemble, gather together

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  • in

- ine

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substance

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-tropin

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stimulating the function of (to turn or act on)

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  • urin/o

- uria

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urine

urine condition

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-tripsy

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crushing

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-one

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hormone

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-pexy

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fixation. put in place

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-arche

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beginning

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-cyesis

A

pregnancy

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-gravida

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pregnant

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-parous

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bearing, bringing forth

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-salpinx

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fallopian (uterine) tube

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  • tocia

- partum

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labor, birth

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-version

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act of turning

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-rrhexis

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rupture

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  • opia

- opsia

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vision

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-tropia

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to turn

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  • acusis

- cusis

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hearing

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-otia

A

ear condition

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