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1. ab-, comb. form View full entry 1904
...Prefixed to the names of units (esp. of electrical and magnetic quantities) in the practical system to form the names of the corresponding units in the centimetre-gram-second electromagnetic system, as abampere...
2. achroo-, comb. form View full entry 1878
...Forming the names of a small number of chemical compounds which are colourless analogues of another compound, as achroodextrin, achrooglycogen (now disused)....
3. adelo-, comb. form View full entry 1864
...Forming adjectives designating cells, parts of organisms, etc., that are inconspicuous with regard to general appearance or some special feature....
4. adeno-, comb. form View full entry 1871
...Forming terms relating to glands, or to lymph nodes and lymphoid tissue....
5. adreno-, comb. form View full entry 1909
...Forming terms relating to the adrenal gland or adrenaline (epinephrine)....
6. aero-, comb. form View full entry 1865
...With reference to air or the air....
7. agglutino-, comb. form View full entry 1900
...Forming terms relating to agglutination (agglutination7)....
8. astro-, comb. form View full entry 1652
...Forming terms relating to stars, other celestial objects, or outer space....
9. auto-, comb. form1 View full entry c1833
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to chemical, biological, or organic processes, with the sense ‘originating within or acting on the body or organism in question; self-produced; self-induced’;human activity or behaviour,...
10. carbo-, comb. form View full entry 1813
...Containing, combined with, or involving carbon....
11. carboxy-, comb. form View full entry 1930
...Containing a carboxyl group; involving or affecting carboxyl groups....
12. crico-, comb. form View full entry 1810
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the sense ‘of or relating to the cricoid cartilage, or the cricoid cartilage and the ——’....
13. crypto-, comb. form View full entry 1798
...Forming chiefly scientific nouns and adjectives with the sense ‘concealed, not visible, not apparent’. See also cryptobiosis, cryptobranchiate, cryptocrystalline, cryptophyte, etc....
14. cyto-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Forming terms with the sense ‘of or relating to a cell or cells’....
15. electro-, comb. form View full entry 1810
...Used, chiefly in scientific and technical contexts, with the senses ‘carried out by electrical means’, ‘involving or utilizing electricity’, ‘relating to electrons or their electric charge’....
16. gyro-, comb. form View full entry 1817
...comb. form repr. Greek γῦρο-ς in sense of ‘ring, circle, spiral’, as in:...
17. histo-, comb. form View full entry 1845
...Forming terms relating to the tissues of animals and plants....
18. idio-, comb. form View full entry a1626
...Forming adjectives and nouns with the senses ‘own, personal, private, peculiar, separate, distinct’....
19. myco-, comb. form View full entry 1872
...Forming chiefly scientific terms relating to fungi....
20. neo-, comb. form View full entry 1647
...Forming compounds referring to a new, revived, or modified form of some doctrine, belief, practice, language, artistic style, etc., or designating those who advocate, adopt, or use it....
