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107 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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a- or an-
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absence of
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ambi-
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both
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anti-
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against
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ante-
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before
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bi-
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two
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brady-
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slow
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circum-
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around
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contra-
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against
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dys-
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painful, difficult, labored
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endo-
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within
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epi-
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upon
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extra-
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outside of
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glyco-
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sugar
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meno-
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monthly, menstrual
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hemi-
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half
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sub-
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under
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hyper-
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above, excess
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hypo-
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below, deficient
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in-, intra-
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inside
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mammo-
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breast
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hepa-, hepato-
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liver
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inter-
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between
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tri-
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three
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mal-
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bad, disordered
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oligo-
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few, little
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ortho-
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straight
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para-
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beside
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poly-
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many
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post-
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after
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pre-
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before
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quadr-
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four
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macro-
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large
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micro-
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small
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retro-
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behind
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trans-
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across
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super-, supra-
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above
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tachy-
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rapid
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angio-
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tube, blood vessel
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arthro-
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joint
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cardio-
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heart
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cephalo-
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head
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cerebro-
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brain
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chole-
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bile
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cyst-
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sac
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cyt-
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cell
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derma-
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skin
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entero-
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gut
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erythro-
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red
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gastro-
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stomach
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hema-, hemo-
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blood
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hepato-
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liver
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hystero-
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uterus
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meningo-
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meninges
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myo-
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muscle
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nephro-
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kidney
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neuro-
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nerve
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orchi-
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testicle
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osteo-
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bone
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oto-
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ear
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phleb-
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vein
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pneumo-
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air, lung
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pyo-
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pus
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rhino-
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nose
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sclero-
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hardness
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uro-
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urine, urinary
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vaso-
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vessel
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leuko-
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white
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-algia
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pain
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-asthenia
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weakness
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-ectomy
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surgical removal
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-emia
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blood
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-esthesia
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senation
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-genic
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causing
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-graph(y)
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visualization of
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-itis
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inflammation
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-megaly
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enlargement of
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-oma
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tumor
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-osis
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disease of
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-ostomy
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opening into
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-otomy
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incision into
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-paresis
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weakness
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-pathy
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disease
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-plegia
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paralysis
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-pnea
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breathing
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-rrhea
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discharge
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-scopy
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to examine, see
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-uria
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urine
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anterior
ventral |
toward the front of the body
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posterior
dorsal |
toward the back of the body
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superior
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upper
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inferior
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lower
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superficial
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near the surface
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deep
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remote from the surface
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internal
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inside
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external
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outside
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proximal
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part nearest the heart
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distal
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part farthest from the heart
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medial
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toward the center of the body
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lateral
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away from the center of the body
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craniad
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toward the head
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caudad
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toward the feet
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supine
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lying horizontal on the back face upward
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prone
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lying horizontal face downward
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abduction
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a movement away from the body
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adduction
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a movement toward the body
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flexion
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the act of bending or shortening
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extension
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the movement that brings the parts of a limb toward a straight condition
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