| PREFIXES | SUFFIXES | COMBINING FORMS | FULL WORDS | WILDCARD |
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What is excessive, above
Hyper-
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What is flow, discharge
-rrhea
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What is sugar
glyc/o
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What is not enough red blood cells
Anemia
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What is hemoglobin
An important protein in erythrocytes that carries the oxygen through the bloodstream
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What is upon, on, above
Epi-
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What is to measure
-meter
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What is to bend
flex/o
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What is the removal of the larynx
Laryngectomy
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What is a good acronym to remember the 5 types of leukocytes?
Never Let Monkeys Eat Bananas (NLMEB)
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What is half
Hemi-
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What is birth, labor
-partum
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What is tongue
gloss/o
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What is a tube is placed through an incision in the abdomen and fluid is removed from the peritoneal cavity
abdominocentesis
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What are the cappilaries
The smallest blood vessels in the human body
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What is beneath, under
Infra-
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What is to bear, carry, feeling
-phoria
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What is forking, branching
furc/o
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What is because of a decrease in blood supply, tissue becomes ischemic and can even die because of lack of oxygen
Ischemia
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What is a surgical clamp to cut off blood supply
A hemostat is used for
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What is no, not, without
A-
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What is one who
-or
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What is formation, development
Plas/o
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What is the process of making an incision of the vein with a needle
Phlebotomy
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What is a method of producing multiple copies of a single gene
Define polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
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