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词根词缀:algesi-, alge-, alges-, algesio-, algi-, algio-, -algesia, -algesic, -algetic, -algic, -algia, -algy

【来源及含义】Greek: pain, sense of pain; painful; hurting

【相关描述】Used actively in medical terminology to denote a condition of sensitivity to pain as specified by the combining root.

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.

【同源单词】abdominalgia, acromelalgia, acrostealgia, acupuncture analgesia, adenalgia, adiposalgia

词根词缀:-arium (s), -aria (pl)

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: a suffix; a place for; abounding in or connected with something; a place containing or related to that which is specified by the root

【同源单词】aquarium, armamentarium, aspidarium, caldarium, cinerarium, clavicular notch

词根词缀:-men, -min

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; result of, means of, act of

【相关描述】A noun-morming word-final element with no particular meaning, derived from the Latin suffix -men, -min- (cognate with Greek -ma), found in a number of Latin borrowings originally denoting "a condition" or "the result of an action" specified by the combining root: flumen, lumen, semen.

Related forms include: -minal; -mens, -mina (plurals).

【同源单词】cognomen, semen, specimen, stamen

词根词缀:-pexy, -pexia, -pexes, -pexic, -pexis, -pex

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; fixing [of a specified part]; attaching to, a fastening

【相关描述】Used in medical nomenclature to denote "a surgical fixation" of that which is specified by the combining root.

【同源单词】adipopexis, calcipexis, cecopexy, cholecystopexy, chromatopexis, colopexy

词根词缀:philo-, phil-, -phile, -philia, -philic, -philous, -phily, -philiac, -philist, -philism

【来源及含义】Greek: love, loving, friendly to, fondness for, attraction to; strong tendency toward, affinity for

【相关描述】These are just a few of the meanings set up for the etymological meanings of philo- which comes to us from Greek.

In biology, there are many words that use philo-, phil- to mean "thriving in such and such a place or situation; or exhibiting a tendency for a specified condition" for its existence.

Other meanings include: "strongly attracted to; such as, an organism that loves or is strongly attracted to something which is specified".

In psychology and psychiatry, -phile, -philia, etc. use this element as a word termination indicating an abnormal craving or attraction to or an affinity for an object as shown by the word stems to which they are affixed.

【相关词根词缀】Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; amat-; vener-; venus.

【同源单词】abrakophile, abrakophilia, abrakophilism, acarophile, acarophilous, acarophily

词根词缀:phyto-, phyt-, -phyte

【来源及含义】Greek: a plant; growth [growing in a specified way or place; to produce]

【同源单词】acarophytism, acrophyte, acropleustophyte, acropleustophytic, aerophyte, aigialophyte

词根词缀:sesqui-

【来源及含义】Latin: one and a half; normally used as a prefix; from Latin, semis “half” + que “and”

【相关描述】In chemistry, three atoms or equivalents of the [specified] element or radical are combined with two of another, as in iron sesquioxide, Fe 2O3. Also defined as the proportion of two (of one radical or element) to three (of another).

【同源单词】hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism, hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianist, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianist, sesquialteral

词根词缀:tono-, -tonia, -tone, -tony, -tonic, -tonical (tension)

【来源及含义】Greek: tonos = tension, pressure

【相关描述】The element tono- is a combining form with the meanings "stretching", "tension", "tone", used in the formation of compound words.

The suffix element -tonia is a combining form with the meanings of "muscle tension" or "nerve tension"; as specified by the initial element: hypertonia; used also in the formation of words that denote more generally a personality type or personality disorder; for example, catatonia and somatotonia.

【同源单词】amyotonia, amyotonic, angiohypertonia, angiohypotonia, atonia, atonic

词根词缀:-ular

【来源及含义】Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular

【同源单词】abarticular, acellular, acicular ice, acinotubular, acromioclavicular, acutangular