rhabdo-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “rod,” “wand,” used in the formation of compound words:
rhabdomyoma.
Origin
combining form representing Greek rhábdos rod, wand
Related Words
- rhabdocoele
- rhabdomancy
- rhabdomyoma
- rhabdomyosarcoma
- rhabdovirus
rhabdo-
combining form
rhabdovirus
combining form
ETYMOLOGY Late Greek, from Greek rhabdos rod — more at vervain
: rodlike structurerhabdovirus
1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iv. 194The *rhabdocœle Turbellaria.
1883 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXIII. 353Graff's Rhabdocœl family of the Proboscida.
Ibid. 355Phylogenetically related to the separate proboscis of certain Rhabdocœls.
1864 T. S. Cobbold Entozoa i. 10*Rhabdocœlian group . [ of Planarians]
1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iv. 178The higher *rhabdocœlous Turbellaria.
1887 Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/2*Rhabdocrepid desma.
Ibid. 422/1A distinct passage can be traced from the Tetracladose to the Rhabdocrepid group.
1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 332In the Turbellaria very similar structures are met with in the *rhabdocysts or rod-cells.
1885 Challenger Rep. ,Narr. Cruise I. i. 194In all the deposits the carbonate of lime consisted chiefly of pelagic Foraminifera, Coccoliths, and *Rhabdoliths.
1883 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXIII. 211The compound hard-piece formed in the axis of a retinula by the union of the laterally formed *rhabdomeres of its constituent nerve-end cells.
1932 Borradaile & Potts Invertebrata x. 274In the midst of each retinula is a vertical rod, known as the rhabdom, secreted by the cells of the sheaf in vertical sections which, when they are distinct, are known as rhabdomeres.
1974 Nature 29 Mar. 380/3 In the worker honey bee,..eight photoreceptor cells..each contribute a wedge of microvilli (termed a rhabdomere).
1969 Nature 9 Aug. 641/1 No noticeable swelling of the *rhabdomeric microvilli was observed during exposure to ultraviolet light.
1976 Ibid. 12 Aug. 626/2The ultrastructure of invertebrate rhabdomeric visual cells have been studied.
1956 D. H. Bowden et al. in Medicine XXXV. 351Biochemical and histological data have been obtained in three children with paroxysmal myohaemoglobinuria. These findings indicate that the recurrent symptom complex is the result of a pathological process in which striated muscle suddenly undergoes lysis. As a more satisfactory description of the disease, we propose that the condition be renamed acute recurrent *rhabdomyolysis.
1963 Amer. Jrnl. Med. XXXIV. 554/1Idiopathic recurrent rhabdomyolysis with myoglobinuria is a syndrome characterized by acute skeletal muscle weakness and pain associated with the passage of urine that is darkly pigmented owing to myoglobin.
1976 Lancet 18 Dec. 1343/1 Rhabdomyolysis is usually caused by serious muscle trauma (crush injuries), electric shock, arterial occlusion, or toxins (drugs, sea-snake bite).
1898 T. N. Kelynack Renal Growths xi. 104 (caption)*Rhabdo-myo-sarcoma of left kidney.
1940 Pack & Anglem in H. W. Dargeon Cancer in Childhood 95The recurrent rhabdomyosarcomas, the diffusely invasive sarcomas of striated muscle and those which are so deeply adherent that a local excision is not feasible, are best treated by amputation.
1958 Trans. Ophthalm. Soc. LXXVIII. 96The exact cytological classification may eventually prove to be important from the prognostic and therapeutic point of view, so that the term rhabdomyosarcoma should not be applied unless striations have been demonstrated unequivocally.
1974 J. R. Wilbur et al. in Neoplasia of Head & Neck 281Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children.
1976 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXIX. 897/1It has been suggested (Ashton 1958) that all such tumours should be regarded as embryonal sarcomas because of their origin from undifferentiated foci of mesenchymal cells, and that the term ‘rhabdomyosarcoma’ should be applied only when there is evidence of longitudinal and cross-striations in the tumour cells, an indication perhaps of some degree of differentiation.
1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1088The mature *rhabdonema lives in the intestinal mucus of the duodenum.
1878 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXXIV. 652A specimen in the Mineralogical Collection, Oxford, labelled Cornwall blende, was found..to consist essentially of didymium and erbium phosphates. The name *Rhabdophane has been given to this very rare mineral.
1892 Dana Min. 820*Rhabdophanite. Rhabdophane... Scovillite.
1898 Packard Textbk. Entom. 179The cercopods and *rhabdopods in the Trichoptera.
1891 Moullin Surg. 131In the *rhabdo-sarcomata the muscle takes the form of transversely striated fibrils, or of elongated spindle-cells, also striated.
1893 Lunds Univ. Arsskrift XXIX. xii. 1,I have prepared..a series of longitudinal and transverse sections through the *rhabdosoma of several species.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 366/2It is the general practice of palæontologists to regard each graptolite polypary (rhabdosome) developed from a single sicula as an individual of the highest order.
1935 Twenhofel & Shrock Invertebr. Paleontol. iv. 90The Dendroidea include graptolites with fan-shaped rhabdosomes composed of branches or stems joined together into a trellis-like framework by means of transverse bars.
1966 McGraw–Hill Encycl. Sci. &Technol. VI. 259/2The Ordovician graptoloids have been subdivided into a large number of genera, based mainly on the branching and form of rhabdosome.
1885 Challenger Rep. ,Narr. Cruise I. i. 218The occurrence of the following organisms was noted during the trip... *Rhabdospheres, Coccospheres.
[ 1965Ann. Inst. Pasteur CIX. 633The viruses possessing RNA, helical symmetry and a naked nucleocapsid, the order of Rhabdovirales is subdivided into two suborders according to the rigidity or flexibility of the virion. ]
1966 Progress Med. Virol. VIII. 404*Rhabdovirus group. This group was recently proposed to include members whose structure is rod-shaped but is more like a bullet, flat at one end and rounded at the other.
1976 Jrnl. Gen. Virol. XXXII. 369Rhabdoviruses infecting plant and vertebrate cells differ in their morphology.
ORIGIN: from Greek rhabdos rod: see -o-
rhabdo-
combining form
see rhabd-
see rhabd-
rhabdo-rhabd-
Prefix
- rodlike
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod, wand”).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with rhabdo-