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1. acetoxy-, comb. form View full entry 1861
...Forming names of compounds containing the group —OCOCH3....
2. aldo-, comb. form View full entry 1883
...Forming nouns denoting substances which contain aldehyde groups (esp. aldoses) or are otherwise related to aldehydes....
3. alkoxy-, comb. form View full entry 1888
...Forming the names of compounds, groups, etc., containing an alkoxyl group —OR, in which an alkyl group is linked through an oxygen atom....
4. allo-, comb. form View full entry 1886
...Forming nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘other, different(ly)’, as allotheism, allonymous, allogenic, etc....
5. bis-, comb. form1 View full entry 1931
...The prec. adv. used in late Latin, French, Italian, before s, c, or a vowel, in place of bi-; hence occas. in English, as in ...
6. cinch-, comb. form View full entry 1881
...Variant of cincho- used before vowels, as in cinchaine, cinchamidine, cinchene, cincholine (see quots.)....
7. cinchon-, comb. form View full entry 1879
...in names of alkaloids derived from cinchona. Cf. cinchonaminecinchona, cinchonine, etc.,...
8. deoxy-, comb. form View full entry 1871
...Used in forming the names of chemical compounds, indicating the loss of one or more atoms of oxygen; = desoxy- (which is less common)....
9. eka-, comb. form View full entry 1889
...Used 1872 in Ann. d. Chemie u. Pharmacie, VIII. Supplementband 196 by D. I. Mendeléeff (18341907), Russian chemist, to denote a predicted element that should...
10. gluco-, comb. form View full entry 1879
...used as comb. form of Greek γλυκ-ύς sweet (see glyco- and note s.v. glucic), and of glucose in the designation of: substances containing,...
11. guanidino-, comb. form View full entry 1910
...Combining form of guanidine So guanidino acid, guanidino group, etc....
12. guanido-, comb. form View full entry 1874
...= guanidino-. So guanido group....
13. hydroxo-, comb. form View full entry 1907
...A combining form of hydroxyl, denoting a coordinated hydroxyl group; also used attrib. as an independent word....
14. imino(-), comb. form View full entry 1896
...Comb. form of imine; also used attrib. as quasi-...
15. iodoxy(-), comb. form View full entry 1865
...Used in chemical names to indicate the presence of the radical IO2 (or, formerly, IO), as in Also as quasi-...
16. keto-, comb. form View full entry 1888
...comb. form of ketone...
17. manno-, comb. form View full entry 1890
...Forming the names of compounds and substances derived from or containing mannose, as mannoglycerate, mannoheptose, mannoheptulose, mannoketoheptose, manno-octose, manno-octulosonate; ...
18. mercapto-, comb. form View full entry 1896
...Forming names of compounds containing the radical —SH, as mercaptoethanol, mercaptopurine, etc....
19. mononitro-, comb. form View full entry 1850
...Forming the names of organic compounds containing one substituted —NO2 radical....
20. nitrato-, comb. form View full entry 1887
...Designating, containing, or involving the nitrate group or radical —ONO2....
