词根词缀：chondro-, chondr-, chrondrio-, chondri-, -chondriac, -chondrias, -chondromatous, -chondroma, -chondromas, -chondromata

【来源及含义】Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage

【同源单词】chondral, chondrectomy, chondric, chondrification, chondrified, chondrifies

词根词缀：gland-, glans-

【来源及含义】Latin: acorn; in medicine, gland, glans

【相关描述】Used in medicine to mean "gland", an aggregation of cells, specialized to secrete or excrete materials not related to their ordinary metabolic needs. Also, "glans" is a general term for a small rounded mass, or glandlike body. The plural of "glans" is "glandes".

【同源单词】axillary gland, biglandular, dysglandular, ecdysial gland, eglandulous, gland

词根词缀：lobo-, lob-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin > French: a rounded projection, especially a rounded projecting anatomical part; such as, lobe of the ear, lobe of the liver, lobe of the lung; seed, pod

【同源单词】lobar, lobate, lobated, lobation, lobe, lobectomy

词根词缀：masto-, mast-, -mastia, -masty

【来源及含义】Greek: breast; the front of the human chest and either of two soft rounded organs on each side of the chest in women and men; however, with women the organs are more prominent and produce milk after childbirth; also, a milk-producing gland in mammals that corresponds to the human breast

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related, partially or totally, to: "breast, breasts, chest": mammill-; mammo-; mastoido-; mazo-; pectoro-; pleuro-; sterno-; stetho-; thorac-.

【同源单词】acromastitis, amastia, anisogynecomastia, anisomastia, bimastism, double mastectomy

词根词缀：rotundi-, rotundo-, rotund-

【来源及含义】Latin: rotondo, rotundus; round, rounded; from Latin, rota, "wheel"

【同源单词】obrotund, ore rotundo, orotund, orotundity, rotandify, rotund

词根词缀：tonsillo-, tonsill-

【来源及含义】Latin: small rounded mass of tissue, especially of lymphoid tissue; tonsil

【同源单词】peritonsillar, tonsil, tonsilla, tonsillar, tonsillectome, tonsillectomy