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UBC CLST301-Module 7 The Birds and the Bees
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Undergraduate 3
04/06/2011

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-atresia
Definition
absence (of a normal bodily opening)
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-blast
Definition
embryonic cell
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-cide
Definition
act of killing/destroying; agent used to kill/destroy
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-cleisis
Definition
closure
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-cyesis
Definition
pregnancy
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-genesis
Definition
formation; development; growth
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-genic
Definition
producing; forming; produced by
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-gravida
Definition
woman who is (or has been) pregnant for (nth time)
[the root which immediately precedes -gravida indicates the number of pregnancies experienced; the connecting vowel preceding -gravida is always i]
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-para
Definition
woman who has given birth (n times)
[see note above for -gravida, which also applies to -para; the connecting vowel preceding -para is always i]
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-pexy
-pexis
Definition
surgical attachment [often of one organ or tissue to another]
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-strophe
Definition
turning; twisting
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-poiesis
Definition
production; formation; development; act of shaping
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-poietic
Definition
pertaining to formation/development
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