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absence, lack acardia, lack of a heart; anaerovic, in the avsence of oxygen | a,an |
departing from, away from abnormal, departing from normal | ab |
hearing acoustics, the science of sound | acou |
extreme or extremity, peak acrodermatitis, inflammation of the skin of the extremities | ac, acro |
to, toward adorbital, toward the orbit | ad |
gland adeniform, resembling a gland in shape | aden, adeno |
toward the kidney adrenal gland, adjacent to the kidney | adren |
air aerobic respiration, oxygen-requiring metabolism | aero |
toward afferent neurons, which carry impulses to the central nervous system | af |
contest agonistic and antagonistic muscles, which oppose each other | agon |
white corpus albicans of the ovary, a white scar tissue | alb |
nourish alimentary canal, or digestive tract | aliment |
of one another alleles, alternative expressions of a gene | allel |
on both sides, of both kinds amphibian, an organism capable of living in water and on land | amphi |
apart, up, again anaphase of mitosis, when the chromosomes separate | ana |
come together arteriovenous anastomosis, a connection between an artery and a vein | anastomos |
vessel angiitis, inflammation of a lymph vessel or blood vessel | angi |
choked angina pectoris, a choled feeling in the chest due to dysfunction of the heart | angin |
opposed to, preventing, inhibiting anticoagulant, a substance that prevents blood coagulation | ant, anti |
preceding, before antecubital, infront of the elbow | ante |
great artery aorta | aort |
tip, extremity apex of the heart | ap, api |
hang of appendicular skeleton | append |
water aqueous solutions | aqua, aque |
tree arbor vitae of the cerebellum, the treelike pattern of white matter | arbor |
open space areolar connective tissue, a losse connective tissue | areola |
upright arrector pili muscles of the skin, which make the hairs stand erect | arrect |
joint arthropathy,any joint disease | arthr, arthro |
joint articular surfaces of bones, the points of connection | artic |
vestibule atria, upper chambers of the heart | atri |
listen auscultatory method for measuring blood pressure | auscult |
self autogenous, self-generated | aut, auto |
axis, axle axial skeleton, axis of verebral column | ax, axi, axo |
unpaired azygous vein, an unnpaired vessel | azyg |
a widening aortic aneurysm, a wa=eak spot that causes enlargement of the blood vessel | aneurysm |