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1. chromato-, comb. form View full entry 1848
...Combining form of Greek χρῶμα colour....
2. dacryo-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...combining form of Greek δάκρυον tear, as in ˌdacryoadeˈnalgiaGermandacryoadenalgie (J. A. Schmidt Über die Krankheiten des Thränenorgans (1803) i. ii.ˌdacryoadeˈnitisˌdacryocyˈstitis...
3. hypno-, comb. form View full entry 1833
...before a vowel hypn-, combining form of Greek ὕπνος sleep. The compounds in Greek were not numerous, and all those employed in English are new formations, and chiefly...
4. laryngo-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...combining form of larynx, chiefly in anatomical, pathological and surgical terms....
5. masto-, comb. form2 View full entry 1848
...Forming nouns denoting medical conditions and surgical procedures affecting or involving the breast or breasts, as mastocarcinoma, masto-chondrosis, etc....
6. megalo-, comb. form View full entry 1848
...Representing mega-1....
7. mento-, comb. form View full entry 1833
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, relating to, or connecting the chin and ——’, as mento-bregmatic, mento-condylial, mento-gonial, mento-labial, etc....
8. nycto-, comb. form View full entry 1846
...Forming words with the sense ‘of or relating to night’. Cf. nycti-....
9. † oario-, comb. form View full entry 1848
...= ovario-....
10. ochro-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Forming terms in which ochro- denotes a light yellow or ochreous colour....
11. oculo-, comb. form View full entry 1824
...functioning as both an eye and an ear....
12. orchido-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Anat. and Surg. Forming terms with the sense ‘of or relating to a testicle or testicles’....
13. † orrho-, comb. form View full entry 1848
...Forming terms with the sense ‘of or relating to serum’; = sero-....
14. osphyo-, comb. form View full entry 1839
...Relating to or affecting the loins....
15. oto-, comb. form View full entry 1833
...Of or relating to the ear....
16. patho-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Forming terms with the sense ‘of or relating to the passions or emotions’, and (now chiefly Med.) terms with the sense ‘of or relating to disease’....
17. phlebo-, comb. form View full entry 1833
...abnormal dilatation of a vein or veins; an instance or type of this; a varix; a venous aneurysm....
18. pneumono-, comb. form View full entry 1842
...Of or relating to the lungs. Cf. pneumo-2....
19. prostato-, comb. form View full entry 1839
...Forming terms relating to the prostate....
20. pyelo-, comb. form View full entry 1844
...Forming terms relating to the pelvis, usually that of the kidney....