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Combining Forms of the Musc. Syst. (+prefixes and suffixes)
Medical Terminology: A Word Building Approach by Jane Rice: Ch. 7, Muscular system
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Undergraduate 1
09/07/2012
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agon/o
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agony, a contest
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amputat/o
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to cut through
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brach/i
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arm
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cleid/o
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clavicle
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clon/o
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turmoil
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duct/o
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to lead
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dactyl/o
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finger or toe
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dermat/o
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skin
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fasci/o
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a band
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fibr/o
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fiber
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is/o
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equal
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metr/o
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to measure
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muscul/o
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muscle
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my/o(s)
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muscle
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neur/o
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nerve
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path/o
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disease
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prosth/e
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an addition
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rhabd/o
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rod
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rotat/o
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to turn
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sarc/o
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flesh
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scler/o
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hardening
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stern/o
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sternum
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synov/o
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synovial
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ten/o
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tendon
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therm/o
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hot, heat
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ton/o
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tone, tension
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tors/o
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twisted
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tort/i
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twisted
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troph/o
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a turning
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volunt/o
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will
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ab-
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away from
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ad-
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toward
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ure- -ion
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process
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ant-
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against
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agon
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agony, a contest
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-ist
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agent
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a-
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lack of
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-trophy
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nourishment, development
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-taxia
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order
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-ar, -y, -ic
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pertaining to
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bi-
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two
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-ceps
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head
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-algia
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pain
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brady-
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slow
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-kinesia
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motion
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con-
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with, together
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tract
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to draw
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-spasm
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tension, spasm
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-ity, -ia
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condition
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-tomy
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incision
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lemma
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rind
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synov
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synovial
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relaxat
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to loosen
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erget
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to work
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volunt
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will
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dermat/o
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skin
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-itis
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inflammation
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dia-
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through
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-phragm
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a fence, partition
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therm
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hot, heat
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dys-
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difficult
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-in
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chemical
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-therapy
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treatment
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in-
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into
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intra-
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within
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levat
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lifter
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-asthenia
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weakness
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gravis
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grave
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-oma
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tumor
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-graph
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instrument for recording
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-malacia
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softening
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-paresis
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weakness
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-pathy
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disease
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-plasty
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surgical repair
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-rrhaphy
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suture
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scler
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hardening
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sarc/o
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flesh
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-plegia
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stroke, paralysis
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rheumat
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discharge
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rotat
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to turn
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-desis
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binding
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