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词根词缀:electro-, electr-, electri-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: electric, electricity; from amber, resembling amber, generated from amber which when rubbed vigorously [as by friction], produced the effect of static electricity

【相关描述】Equipment which we use everyday relies on electronics to function including calculators, car controls, cameras, washing machines, medical scanners, mobile telephones, radar systems, computers; as well as many other applications or devices which are listed in this unit.

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly and/or indirectly, with "electricity": galvano-; hodo-; ion-; piezo-; -tron; volt; biomechatronics, info; mechatronics, info.

【同源单词】acoustoelectric effect, acoustoelectronics, active electrode, ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring, amphoteric electrolyte, anelectrotonus

词根词缀:grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia

【来源及含义】Greek: to scratch; to write, to record, to draw, to describe; that which is written or described

【相关描述】As indicated at the bottom of this page, there are a significantly large number of graphic word-entry groups in this unit. Such an extensive listing is provided to show how important the grapho- element is to the English language.

【相关词根词缀】Related "writing" word units: glypto-; gram-; scrib-, script-.

【同源单词】abdominal aortography, accelerograph, acoustic agraphia, acrography, actinograph, actinography

词根词缀:hystero-, hyster-, hysteri-

【来源及含义】Greek: the womb or uterus; hysteria

【相关描述】"Hysteric disturbances", that most frequently occur in women were ascribed erroneously by ancient Greeks to the influence of the womb and were, for this reason, called hysteria, "disease of the womb".

This hestero- unit is not related to a similarly spelled hysteres- unit of words referring to "shortcoming, deficiency; to be behind, to come late, to lag; later".

【同源单词】colpohysteropexy, colpohysterotomy, electrohysterogram, electrohysterography, epidemic hysteria, hesteriac