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-ac
pertaining to
-al
pertaining to
-algia
pain
-ar, -ary
pertaining to
-ase
enzyme
-logy
study of
-dipsia
thirst
-graphy, -graph
instrument for recording
-gram
record
-genic
producing
-pathy
disease
-itis
inflammation of
-osis
condition
-rrhage
excessive flow
-oid
resembling, like
-ectomy
surgical removal
-stasis
control
-logist
specialist
-scopy
viewing of
-rrhea
flowing discharge
-scope
instrument
-sclerosis
hardening
-spasm
twitching, involuntary contraction
-oma
tumor
-cyte
cell
-ic
pertaining to
-emia
blood condition
-plasty
surgical repair
-uria
urine
-iatry
treatment
-lepsy
seizure
-lysis
breaking down
-lytic
destroy
-megaly
enlarged
-meter
measuring instrument
-penia
decreased number
-phagia
eating, swallowing
-philia
attraction to
-phobia
fear of
-plegia
paralysis, stroke
-stenosis
narrowing
-stomy
artificial opening
-toxic
poison
-trophy
nourishment, development
-ule, -ula
small
acous/o
hearing
aden/o
gland
adip/o
fat
alb
white
ambul/o
walk
andr/o
male
angi/o
vessel
arthr/o
joint
bucc/o
cheek
carcin/o
cancer
cardi
heart
cereb
brain
chem/o
chemistry
cyan
blue
cyst/o
bladder
cyt/o
cell
derm/a
skin
duoden/o
duodenum, first part of small intestine
enter/o
intestine
erythr/o
red
esophag/o
esophagus
fibr/o
fiber
gastr/o
stomach
gluc/o
sugar
glyc/o
sugar
gynec/o
woman
hemat/o
blood
hem/o
blood
hepat/o
liver
hist/o
body tissues
hyster/o
uterus
lact/o
milk
lapar/o
abdomen
leuk/o
white
lipid
fat
lymph/o
lymph
mamm/o
breast tissue
melan/o
dark, black
myel/o
muscle
my/o
muscle
nas/o
nose
necr/o
dead
nephr/o
kidney
neur/o
nerve
ocul/o
eye
ophthalm/o
eye
oste/o
bone
ot/o
ear
ox, oxy
oxygen
pancreat/o
pancreas
pelv/o
pelvis
phleb/o
vein
pneum/o
lungs
prostat/o
prostate
psych/o
mind
pulm/o
lungs
ren/o
kidney
retin/o
retina
rhin/o
nose
thromb/o
blood clot
tox/o
poisonous
urethr/o
urethra
ven/o
vein
vas, vascul/o
blood vessel
vesic, vesicul/o
vesicle, bladder
uter/o
uterus
proct/o
rectum
a-, an-
without, not, no
ante-
before
anti-
against
auto-
self
bi-
two
bio-
life
brady-
slow
circum-
around
cirrh-
orange-yellow
contra-
against
cyan-
blue
dia-
completely
dys-
bad, painful, abnormal
endo-
within, inner
epi-
above
eryth-
red
eu-
good, normal
extra-
outside
hemi-
half
hyper-
over, above
hypo-
below, under
immun-
pertaining to immunity
inter-
between, among
intra-
within, inside
iso-
equal
leuk-
white
macro-
large
mal-
poor
melan-
black
micro-
small
pan-
all
per-
through
peri-
around
poly-
many, excessive
post-
after
pre-
before
quadri-
four
sub-
below, under
sym-, syn-
together
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