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aer/o

air, gas

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Ather/o

plaque, fatty substance(inside of a blood vessel)

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Blast/o

Immature cell

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Calc/o, calci/o

calcium

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Chondrio, chondro

cartilage, grainy, gritty

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Chyl/o

chyle, a digestive juice

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Chym/o

chyme, semifluid production of chyme in the stomach

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Cyst/o, cysti

bladder, cyst, cystic duct

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Cyt/o

cell

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Ethm/o

ethmoid bone

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Gluc/o

glucose

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Hydr/o

hydrogen, water

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Ket/o, keton/o

ketone, acetone

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Lip/o

fat(outside of a blood vessel)

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Nucle/o

nucleus

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Plasma, plasmo

formative, plasma

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Salping/o

tube

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Sider/o

iron

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Somat/o

body

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Squam/o

scale, squamous(meaning scaly)

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Syring/o

tube

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algesi/o, algi/o, alg/o

pain

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Cry/o

cold

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Dips/o

thirst

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Esthesi/o

sensations, perception

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Kin/o, kine

movement

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Kinesi/o, kines/o

Motion

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Phon/o

sound, voice, speech

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Phot/o

light

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Son/o

sound

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Therm/o

heat

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acanth/o

spiny, thorny

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Andr/o

masculine

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Chlor/o

chlorine, green

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Chrom/o, chromat/o

color

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Cyan/o

blue

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Eosin/o

red

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Erythr/o

red, redness

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Granul/o

granular

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Gyn/o, gyne, gynec/o

women

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Home/o, hom/o

same, constant

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Ichthy/o

dry, scaly, fishy

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Idi/o

distinct, unknown

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Immun/o

safe, immune

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Leuk/o

white

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Macr/o

large, long

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Meg/a, megal/o

large, million

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Melan/o

black, dark

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Micr/o

small, tiny

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Mio

smaller, less

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Morph/o

structure, shape

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Norm/o

normal

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Physi/o

physical, natural

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Pseud/o

false

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Scler/o

hardness, hardening

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Scoli/o

crooked, bent

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Spher/o

round, spherical

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Staphyl/o

grapelike clusters

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Sten/o

narrowness

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Strept/o

twisted chains, streptococci

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Terat/o

monster (as a malformed fetus)

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Xanth/o

yellow

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bacill/o

bacilli, bacteria

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Bacteri/o

bacteria

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Carcin/o

cancer

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Kyph/o

humpback

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Onch/o, onc/o

tumor

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Path/o

disease

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Pyr/o

fever, fire, heat

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Schist/o

split

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Schiz/o

split, division

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Spasm/o

spasm

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anteri/o

front

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Dextr/o

right, toward the right

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Dors/o

back

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Goni/o

angle

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Later/o

lateral, to one side

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Medi/o

middle, medial plane

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Mes/o

middle, median

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Orth/o

straight, normal

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Top/o

place, tropical

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crin/o

secrete

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Gen/o

producing, being born

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Hypn/o

sleep

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Log/o

speech, words, thought

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Narc/o

sleep, numbness

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Phag/o

eating, devouring, swallowing

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Somn/o, somni

sleep

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Spir/o

breath; breathe

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actin/o

light

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Amyl/o

starch

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Bar/o

weight, pressure

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Bas/o, basi/o

base

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Bio

life

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Chem/o

chemical

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Chrono

time

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Coni/o

dust

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Cycl/o

circle, cycle

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Dyna, dynam/o

force, energy

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Echo

reflected sound

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