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1
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Afferent

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Going towards

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Arthro

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Joint

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Bacterio

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Bacteria

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Bio

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Life

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Blast

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Rapidly dividing cell

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Carc/I
Carc/in
Carc/ino

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Cancer (Greek word that literally mean crab)

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Card/i
Card/io

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Heart

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Caud/o

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Tail

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Cephal/o

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Head

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Chole

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Bile

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Constrict
Sten/o

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Narrowing; decreasing the size of an opening (construction is generally normal, stenosis is generally abnormal)

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Cyst/o

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Bladder/ fluid filled space

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Dilate

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Increasing the size of an opening

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Efferent

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Going away from

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Eti/o

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How something came to be

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Enceph/a
Encephal/o

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Inside the head

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gastr/o

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Stomach

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Gen/o

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Cause, origin

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Genetic

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Inheritance

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Hem/o
Hemat/o

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Blood

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Hepat/o

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Liver

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Hydr/o

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Water

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Idio

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Private, distinct

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Morph/o

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Change

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Muscul/o
My/o

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Muscle

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Myc/o

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Fungus

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Necro

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Dead

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Neur/o

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Nervous system

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Orth/o

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Straight, at right angles

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Ost/e
Ost/eo

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Bone

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Path/o

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Disease (literally “suffering”)

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Ped/o

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Children

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Phag/o

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Eating

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Plas/o

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Formation

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Py/o

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Pus

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Sarc/o

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Flesh, muscle

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Scler/o

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Hard

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Stom/a/t

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Mouth

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Therm/o

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Temperature

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Troph/o

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Nourishment

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Trop/o

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Moving towards or acting on

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Ur

A

Urine

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Valv/ulo

A

Valve

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Acid

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Substance which gives off hydrogen ions

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Active

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Requires energy

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Agonist

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Fighter, champion

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Amino

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Chemical group containing the element nitrogen

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Archaea

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Ancient, the oldest most primitive form of living things

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Bio

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Life

50
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Cancer

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A disease characterized by uncontrolled cell division and/or the unusual appearance of cells

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Capsid

A

Box

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Cell

A

Unit of living things bounded by a cellular membrane

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Centr/i
Centr/o

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Center

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Chondr

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Granule

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Chrom/at
Chrom/o

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Color

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Clone

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A cell which is an exact genetic copy of its parent cell

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Deoxyrib/o

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A sugar which is similar to ribose but is missing an oxygen

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Dox

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Opinion; belief

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Electron

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Subatomic particle

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Feedback

A

Information in the body used to monitor a state or condition

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Golgi apparatus
Goldi bodies
Golgi complex

A

Same organelle

62
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Karyon

A

Nucleus

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Lys/o
Lytic

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Breakdown; destruction

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Malignant

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Invasive or destructive

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Meion

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Lessen; reduce

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Mito

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Thread

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Myel/o

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Marrow

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Necr/o

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Death

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Nucleus

A

The center of a cell

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Onc/o

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Cancer

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Organ

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Tool;instrument

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Paradox

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Against prevailing opinion

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Passive

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Does not require energy

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Phag/o
Phage

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Eating

75
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Pin/o

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Drinking

76
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Plasm

A

Jelly

77
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Ptosis

A

Drooping

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Respiration

A

Process of turning oxygen into energy

79
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Ret/e

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Net

80
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Rib/o

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A sugar which is the basis for many molecule

81
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Soma

A

Body

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Stasis

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Stopping; holding

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Transcript

A

Changing the form without changing the language

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Translate

A

Changing the language

85
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Transmissibility

A

The ability of a disease to move from one person to another

86
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Ves

A

Bladder

87
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Virus

A

Latin, “slimy liquid”

88
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Zym/o

A

Leavening

Medical Terminology 1101 (15 decks)

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