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Exercise 8
As a brief review, please match each of the definitions on the right with a root or suffix on the left.
Answer:
- -cele — c. hernia, protrusion
- -emia — f. blood
- -itis — e. inflammation of
- -plegia — d. stroke, blow, paralysis
- -rrhexis — i. rupture
