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Use the elements listed in the table to build medical words. You may use the elements more than once.

Combining Forms Suffixes Prefixes
abdomin/o eti/o -al -megaly dia-
cirrh/o gastr/o -algia -meter infra-
cost/o leuk/o -gnosis -oma super-
crani/o melan/o -graphy -osis trans-
cyt/o son/o -ior -plasty
dors/o -logy -rrhea
erythr/o -lysis

study of the cause (of disease) _____________

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The combining form eti/o indicates the cause. Etiology is a study of a disease's cause. The term also contains a suffix -logy which refers to a study.

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