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| show | the absence of breathing, temporary inability to breath
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| show | swallowing of air
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| Asthma | show 🗑
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| show | tiny air sacs in the lungs at the end of the bronchioles
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| Acidosis | show 🗑
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| show | lack or absence of oxygen
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| show | collapse of the lung or a part of the lung (imperfect expansion of the lungs)
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| Bradypnea | show 🗑
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| Bronchitis | show 🗑
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| Bronchofiberoscopy | show 🗑
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| show | a substance that acts to dilate constricted bronchial tubes
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| Bronchiectasis | show 🗑
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| Bronchostenosis | show 🗑
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| Bronchioles | show 🗑
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| Broncholith | show 🗑
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| show | formation of a new opening into a bronchus
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| Bronchus | show 🗑
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| show | bronchial hemorrhage
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| show | suturing of a bronchus
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| show | spasmodic contraction of the muscular lining of the bronchi
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| show | fine crackling or bubbling sounds typically heard upon inspiration
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| Consolidation | show 🗑
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| show | relieves inflammation and replace hormones for adrenal insufficiency (Addison disease).
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| Coryza | show 🗑
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| Croup | show 🗑
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| show | bluish color due to hypoxia
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| show | cell
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| COPD | show 🗑
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| Diaphragm | show 🗑
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| show | fungal disease of the skin
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| show | dilation or expansion
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| Emphysema | show 🗑
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| show | pus in a body cavity, especially in the pleural cavity (pyothorax)
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| show | acute form, a severe, life-threatening infection of the epiglottis and surrounding area that occurs most commonly in children 2-12.
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| show | flap covering the windpipe
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| Epistaxis | show 🗑
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| Endotracheal | show 🗑
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| Friction rub | show 🗑
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| show | (Forced Vital Capacity)- measurement of the amount of air that can be forcefully exhaled from the lungs after the deepest inhalation
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| Hypoxemia | show 🗑
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| Hemo | show 🗑
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| Hemoptysis | show 🗑
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| show | oxygen deficiency in the body
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| Hemorrhage | show 🗑
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| Hyperventilation | show 🗑
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| Intercostal | show 🗑
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| show | contagious, viral disease, may cause fever, chills, HA (hemagglutinin), muscle (my) pain
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| Inspiration | show 🗑
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| show | (Intermittent positive-pressure breathing)
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| show | excision of a lobe. Surgical excision or removal of a lobe
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| show | voice box (contains the vocal cords)
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| show | inflammation of the larynx
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| Laryngalgia | show 🗑
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| show | creating a new opening in larynx
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| show | incision into the larynx to create a temporary opening
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| show | herniation of the larynx
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| Laryngopathy | show 🗑
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| show | instrument used to examine the larynx
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| show | spasm of the larynx
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| Melan | show 🗑
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| Muc(o) | show 🗑
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| My(o) | show 🗑
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| Myc(o) | show 🗑
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| show | any condition caused by a fungus
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| Mycoid | show 🗑
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| show | science and study of fungi
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| Mycodermatitis | show 🗑
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| Steth | show 🗑
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| show | straight
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| show | difficult/ painful breathing in a position except in an erect sitting or standing position. Abel to breathe only when sitting or standing
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| Ptyalo | show 🗑
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| Ptyalorrhea | show 🗑
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| show | “whooping cough” infection of the respiratory mucous membrane
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| Pnea | show 🗑
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| Dyspnea | show 🗑
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| show | lung/air
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| show | wind or breath
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| Pneumoderma | show 🗑
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| Pneumothorax | show 🗑
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| show | treatment with compressed air
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| show | an instrument that measures air volume in respiration
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| show | collection of air and serum in the chest cavity
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| show | collection of air and pus in the chest cavity
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| show | lung
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| show | excision of part or all of a lung
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| show | incision of a lung
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| Pneumonopathy | show 🗑
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| Pneumonorrhagia | show 🗑
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| Pneumonia | show 🗑
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| show | inflammation of the lungs
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| show | lung disease in which lung tissue becomes black due to breathing in black dust, soot, or black smoke
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| Postural drainage | show 🗑
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| Pneumothorax | show 🗑
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| show | herniation of the lung through a defect in the chest wall
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| Pneumocentesis | show 🗑
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| show | surgical fixation of lung tissue
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| show | inflammation of the pleura
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| show | excision of part of the pleura
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| Pleura | show 🗑
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| Pleuralgia | show 🗑
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| Pharyngo | show 🗑
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| show | incision of the pharynx
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| show | disease of the pharynx
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| Pharyngoplasty | show 🗑
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| show | instrument to examine the pharynx
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| Pharyngolith | show 🗑
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| show | a fungus disease of the pharynx
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| Pharyngitis | show 🗑
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| Pharyngocele | show 🗑
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| show | narrowing/stricture of the pharynx
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| Pyothorax | show 🗑
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| Pharyngomycosis | show 🗑
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| Pharyngoplegia | show 🗑
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| show | diaphragm
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| Phrenoplegia | show 🗑
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| show | removal of a portion of the phrenic nerve
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| Pulmono | show 🗑
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| Pulmonary/ Pulmonic | show 🗑
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| show | heart valve through which blood travels to the lungs. Blood flows from the heart to the lungs via the pulmonary or pulmonic artery.
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| show | blood clot moving to the lung
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| show | surgical repair of the nose
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| Rhinomycosis | show 🗑
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| show | abnormal condition of the lungs
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| Stridor | show 🗑
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| show | measures breathing capacity of the lungs
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| Thoracocentesis | show 🗑
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| Trachea | show 🗑
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| Tracheopyosis | show 🗑
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| Tracheorrhagia | show 🗑
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| Trachealgia | show 🗑
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| show | herniation of the trachea
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| Tracheostomy | show 🗑
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| show | examination of the trachea
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| show | pertaining to the trachea
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| show | incision of trachea and larynx
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| show | softening of the trachea
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| show | disease of the trachea
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| Tracheotomy | show 🗑
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| show | surgical creation of a new opening in the trachea
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| show | rapid, fast, elevated breathing
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| show | infectious disease producing small lesions in the lungs
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| Visceropleural | show 🗑
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| Whoop | show 🗑
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| show | continuous high pitched whistling usually during expiation, narrow airway
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| show | obstructive sleep apnea
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| FEV | show 🗑
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| FEV1 | show 🗑
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| show | (pulmonary function test)- test to determine the capacity of the lungs to exchange oxygen and CO2 efficiently
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| show | a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles as well as in tissues surrounding the joints
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| Cystic fibrosis | show 🗑
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| show | protrusion of the abdominal parts/organs into the chest through the diaphragm
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| Nephritis | show 🗑
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| show | tumor of the liver
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| ABG | show 🗑
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| show | Cancer; Chronological age; cardiac arrest
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| show | (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)- used to describe progressive lung diseases such as emphysema, chronic bronchitis, refractory asthma.
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| CPAP | show 🗑
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| CPAP machine | show 🗑
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| show | Carbon dioxide
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| show | (obstructive sleep apnea)- may be due to enlarged tonsils that cause an airway obstruction
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| ARDS | show 🗑
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| show | pertaining to
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| -ar | show 🗑
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| show | pain
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| -ectasis | show 🗑
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| -cele | show 🗑
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| -centesis | show 🗑
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| show | excision, removal
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| -malacia | show 🗑
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| -itis | show 🗑
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| -ia | show 🗑
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| show | small, minute
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| -osis | show 🗑
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| show | smell
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| show | oxygen
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| -rrhea | show 🗑
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| -scope | show 🗑
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| -plasty | show 🗑
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| show | swallowing, eating
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| show | paralysis
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| -pnea | show 🗑
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| show | narrowing stricture
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| -spasm | show 🗑
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| show | chest
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| show | treatment
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| show | instrument to cut
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| -tomy | show 🗑
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| show | specialist
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| -itic | show 🗑
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| show | condition
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| -logist | show 🗑
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| -pathy | show 🗑
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| show | without, not
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| Brady- | show 🗑
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| show | bad, painful, difficult
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| Eu- | show 🗑
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| show | above, upon
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| Erythr/o | show 🗑
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| show | under, below, deficient
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| show | large
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| Micro- | show 🗑
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| show | new
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| show | near, beside, beyond
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| show | around
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| Tachy- | show 🗑
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| show | straight
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| Pneumon- | show 🗑
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| show | black
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| show | pus
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