词根词缀:colpo-, colp-, kolpo-, kolp-
【来源及含义】Greek: womb, fold; vagina; from "bosom, lap, hollow"
【相关描述】The letter "k" is frequently used in place of the beginning "c" for many of these words.
【同源单词】aerocolpos, bathycolpian, colpalgia, colpectasia, colpectomy, colpedema
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
词根词缀:rhapho-, rhaph-, rhap-, -rhaph, -rhaphy, -orrhaphy, -rrhaphy
【来源及含义】Greek: suture, stitching, joining in a seam
【同源单词】achillorrhaphy, angiorrhaphy, aortorrhaphy, autorrhaphy, blepharorrhaphy, canthorrhaphy