词根词缀:ophthalmo-, ophthalm-, -ophthalmia, -ophthalmic, -ophthalmos
【来源及含义】Greek: eye; sight
【相关词根词缀】 Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenti-, lens-; lenticulo-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; phaco-; pupillo-; retino-; uveo-.
【同源单词】anophthalmia, arteria ophthalmica, autoophthalmoscope, autoophthalmoscopy, binophthalmoscope, calyculus ophthalmicus
词根词缀:phthisio-, phthis-, phthi-, -phthisis
【来源及含义】Greek: decay, waste away, waning; loss, diminution
【相关描述】In the past, tuberculosis was called consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting. Other names included phthisis, Greek for "consumption" and phthisis pulmonalis.
【相关词根词缀】 Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).
【同源单词】antiphthisic, fibroid phthisis, gastrophthisis, hemophthisis, laryngophthisis, limophthisis