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Suffixes
Prefixes
100
Cancerous, cancer
What is aden/o
100
Kidney
what is nephr/o
100
White
what is leuk/o
100
pertaining to
-al
100
within
endo-
200
Gland
What is aden/o


200
Liver
what is hepat/o
200
Red
Erythr/o
200
to cut out
-ectomy
200
bad, painful, difficult, abnormal
dys-
300
Head
what is cephal/o
300
Nerve
what is neur/o
300
Kidney
what is ren/o
300
condition of the blood
-emia
300
surrounding
peri-
400
Cell
What is cyt/o
400
Eye
what is opthalm/o
400
flesh, muscle
what is sarc/o
400
referring to a protein
-globin
400
behind
retro-
500
Knowledge
What is gnos/o
500
Abdomen
what is lapar/o
500
clot
what is thromb/o
500
tumor, or (more generally) a mass
-oma
500
self
aut-
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