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-centesis
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to remove fluid
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Amnio-
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Fluid filled sac surrounding the embryo
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Thorac-
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Chest
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Para-
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Abdomen
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List 3 types of centesis's
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Centesis means to remove fluid
Paracentesis=From Abdomen Amniocentesis=From Embryo sac Thoracocentesis=From Chest cavity |
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Bronchi-
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Branch off the trachea and bring air to the lungs
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Larynx-
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Voicebox.
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Pharynx-
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Area above voicebox
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Tonsil
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Lymph tissue of the throat
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-pathy
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disease
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-ptosis
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droop
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-trophy
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To develop
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-plasty
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To develop
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Give 2 suffixes that mean to develop
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-plasty
or -trophy |
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Neuropathy
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Nerve-disease
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Rhinoplasty
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Nose-create
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Thromb-
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clot
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Cyte
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cell
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List 3 terms that mean blood
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-emia
Hemat- Hemo- |
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-emia
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A blood condition
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Hemat-
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Blood
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Hemo-
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Blood
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Thrombocyte
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clot-cell
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Anemia
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Without-Blood
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Isch-
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To hold back
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Ischemia
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To hold back-blood
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-lysis
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To break down
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Hemolysis
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Blood-To breakdown
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Necro-
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death
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Pleura
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Membrane surrounding organs
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Pleuritis
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Inflammation of membrane surrounding organ
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Pleurodynia
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Pain in membrane surrounding the organ
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List 2 terms for pain
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-dynia
-algia |
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Ot-
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Ear
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Opthal-
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Eye
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Acute
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happens all of a sudden
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Chronic
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Happens over a long period of time
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Remission
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Gone
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Relapse
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To come back
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Define the sentence:
"The disease has relapsed" |
The disease has come back
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Define the sentence:
" The disease is in remission" |
The disease is gone
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-scope
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An instrument used to look at
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-opsy
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To look at or view
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-stasis
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To get stuck or remain stagnant
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-tomy
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To cut into
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-cele
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Hernia
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Cystocele
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Bladder-hernia
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Rectocele
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Rectum-Hernia
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Staph-
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Cluster
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Strep-
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Chain
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-cocci
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Berry shaped
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Staphylococcus
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Cluster-Berry Shaped
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Streptococcus
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Chain-Berry Shaped
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-graph
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record
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-tomy versus -stomy
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tomy= To take out (like in a masec-tomy)
stomy= To make a permanent opening (like a colo-stomy or poop back that comes off the colon) |
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Tracheotomy
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Windpipe-remove
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Angio
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Vessel
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Angioplasty
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Vessel-Repair
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-PHOBIA
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FEAR
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ADIP-
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FAT
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-malacia
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softening
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-sclerosis
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hardening
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dys
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abnormal
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hyper
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excessive
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hypo
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low
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dystropy
vs. hypertrophy vs. hypotrophy |
Dystrophy=Abnormal development
Hypertrophy=Excessive development Hypotrophy=Little development |
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lateral
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side
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bi-
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Both
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Ipsi-
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Same
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Uni-
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One
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Contra-
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Opposite
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Bilateral
vs. Ipsilateral vs. Contralateral vs. Unilateral |
Bilateral=2 sides
Ipsilateral= same side Contralateral= opposite side Unilateral= one side |
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Ect-
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Out
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Ex-
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Out
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2 terms meaning out
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Ect-
& Ex- |
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Ectopic
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Outside
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Exopthalmos
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Out-Eye
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Pre-
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Before
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Pro-
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Before
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2 terms that mean before
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Pre-
Pro- |
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Syn-
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Together
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Post-
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After
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-pnea
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Breathe
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Apnea
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Without-breathing
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A-
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Without
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Anoxia
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Without Oxygen
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Morph
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shape
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Meta
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Change
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Metamorphosis
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Change shape
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Neo
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New
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2 terms for sugar
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-glyc or gluc
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-uria
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In the urine
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Hyperglycemia vs.Hyperglycuria
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Hyperglycemia-High blood sugar
Hyperglycuria-High blood urine |
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Thorax
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chest
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peritoneum
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abdomen
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gatric
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stomach
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Retro-
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Behind
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Intra-
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Inside
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Retroperitoneal
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Behind or in back of-Abdomen
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Intraperitoneal
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Inside-Abdomen
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Dyspnea
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Abnormal breathing
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-somn
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Sleep
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Insomnia
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Not-sleeping
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Brady-
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Slow
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Tachy-
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-Fast
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Tachypnea
vs. Tachycardia |
Tachypnea=Fast Breathing
Tachycardia=Fast Heartbeat |
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Per-
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Through
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percutaneous
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Through Skin
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Peri
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Around
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Periosteum
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Around-Bone
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Peri-chondral
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Around cartilage
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Anti
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Against
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Sepsis
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Infection
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Anti-Septic
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Against-Infection
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Ante-
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Before
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Antepartum
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Before-Birth/labor
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ox
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oxygen
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anoxia
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no-oxygen
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Anomaly
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Irregularity at birth
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Neoplasm
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New-Tumor
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flex
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bend
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Analysis
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to break apart.
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