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-act-
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to do, to drive
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cephal/o
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head
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An octopus is a cephalopod. What is it's biggest feature?
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cyt/o
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related to cells
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cytoplasm is the liquid inside these
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dys-
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painful, bad, difficult, diseased, faulty
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dysentery can't be pleasant
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fibr/o
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fibrous, fiber
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If you need a hint on this....
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hetero/o
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different
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a heterogeneous mixture his made up of many distinct, nonsoluble components
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lip/o
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fat
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liposuction is sucking it
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micr/o
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small
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microsopes are used to look at ____ things
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necr/o
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pertaining to death
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a necromancer supposedly conjures up the spirits of those past to guide us
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pex/o
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fixation
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pex/fix?
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phob/o
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abnormal fear
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arachnophobia
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poly-
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many
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some men wouldn't mind being polyamourous, if the women let them
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rach/i, rachi/o
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spine
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retro-
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backward
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supra-
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outside, higher in position, further, on
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the skin is supramuscular
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anti-
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against
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col/o
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pertaining to the colon
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a colostomy is no fun....
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dic
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to say
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dictionary, maybe?
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end/o
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inside, inner
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the endoplasmic reticulum is... um. inside something?
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homo-
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same, equal
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homeostasis
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kinesi/o
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movement, motion
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kinesthetic people are always _______
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mort
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to die
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mortuary
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myel/o
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spinal cord, bone marrow
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myelin is the white matter coating nerves
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oo/ovo
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egg, ovum
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par/a
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beside, beyond, near, abnormal
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paranomal
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phleb/o
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vein
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phleb/o
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vein
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pol/y
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many, too much
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pro-
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in front of, before, forward
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proactive is acting before
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sanguin/o
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blood
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one of the four "vital humours"
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super-
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above, beyond
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superimposing one image on another does what?
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acr-o-
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top, tip, pertaining to extremities
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acrophobia is fear of extreme hights
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carcin/o-
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cancerous, malignant
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di/a
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through
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edema
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excess fluids in cells or tissues
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my eye had this for a while after LASIK
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gingiv/o
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pertaining to the gums
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gotta love gingivitis
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hidr/o
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sweat
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a hidrocystoma is a cyst of an eccrine gland
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leps/y
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attack, seizure
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narcolepsy is uncontrollable sleeping seizures
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metr/o,meter
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instrument
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thermometer
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nyct/o
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night
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nyctalopia is helped by eating carrots
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orraphy
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suturing, stitching
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pharmac/o
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drugs, medicine
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L. Roth has a degree in pharmacology
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pleg/o
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paralysis
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plegophonia is an inability to speak due to paralyis of the vocal cords
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post, poster/o
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after, behind
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the butt is a posterior appendage
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sinistr/o
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left
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FFX-2, Dextral and Sinistral winks
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syn
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together, joined
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synthesis is a joining together of stuff
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an-
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without
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anhydrous
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caud/o
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downward, toward the tail
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It looks like those big cats on our property had caudectomies.
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dipl/o
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double
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haploid:diploid::1:?
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esthesi/o
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feeling, perception
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kinesthetic is perception through motion, anesthetic is no feeling
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hemo/o, hemat/o
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blood
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hemolysis is not a good thing.
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hyster/o
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pertaining to the uterus
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my anatomy teacher had a hysterectomy
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is/o
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equal
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isotonic, as compared to hypertonic and hypotonic
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lumb/o
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pertaining to the loin
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the lumbar spine is between the thorax(?) and pelvis
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mes/o
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middle, average
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I'm currently barely mesosane.
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opthalm/o
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pertaining to the eye
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optometrist, opthamologist
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par/o
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to bear
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pod/o
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foot
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amoeba have psuedopods
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re-
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again, back
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reiterate
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spir/o
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breath
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respire, perspire
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therm/o
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heat
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blast/o
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pertaining to processes of cell/tissue budding
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a blastocyst is a ball of cells that differentiate into a full organism
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calcane/o
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heel
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the calecaneous bone is at the bottom of your foot
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com-, con-
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with, together
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contract, communicate, all group activities
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cor/e, core/o
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pupil
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At the Sooner Mall, I underwent corectasis for surgery prep
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emesis
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vomiting
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tossing your cookies
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extra
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outside, beyond
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graph
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writing
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lithograph, EEG
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infra-
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below, under
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a city's infrastructure is the part that you can't see
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ir/o, irid/o
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iris
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later/o
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the side
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lateral, not dorsal or pectoral
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megal/o
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enlarged
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megalocystis is a large bladder
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mening/o
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pertaining to membranes around the brain and spinal cord
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meningitis inflames these important pathways
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mis-
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wrong
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misnomer
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omni-
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everywhere, all
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God is omniscient and omnipresent
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peri
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around
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the pericardium is the tissue surrounding the heart
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