词根词缀:-cide, -cides, -cidal

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; cutter; “to cut down”

【相关描述】Don’t confuse this element with the another -cide that means “to cut”; although -cide, “death”, is related to -cise, -cide, “to cut down”.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "death, dead; kill" units: lethal-; mort-; neci-; necro-; phono-; thanato-.

【同源单词】aborticide, acaricide, adulticide, algaecide, algicide, algiocide

词根词缀:cyto-, cyt-, -cyte, cytio-

【来源及含义】Greek: cells, cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cells" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow]

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to "cell, cells, cell nucleus": celli-; cellulo-; endothelio-; gameto-; glio-; kary-, karyo-; neuro-.

【同源单词】anisocytosis, astrocytoma, athrocytosis, autocytoplasty, autophagocytosis, capnocytophaga