onco-
combining form
denoting a tumour
⇒
oncology
Origin
from Greek onkosonco-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “tumor,” “mass,” used in the formation of compound words:
oncogenic.
Origin
combining form of Greek ónkos mass, bulk
Related Words
- onchocerciasis
- oncogene
- oncogenesis
- oncology
- oncornavirus
onco-
combining form
oncology
combining form
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek onkos bulk, mass; akin to Greek enenkein to carry — more at enough
: tumoroncology
onco-
combining form
- of or relating to tumours表示“肿瘤的”：
-
oncology.
词源
from Greek onkos 'mass'.
1972 P. Alexander in Nature 21 Jan. 137/2Table 1 is an attempt to classify the different types of *onco-foetal ‘antigens’ (OFAs). It seems necessary to coin this phrase because the more elegant description of carcino-embryonic antigen has been pre-empted to describe one class of these compounds.
1975 Ibid. 25 Dec. 734/2In man the two best known oncofoetal antigens are the α-foetoprotein (AFP)..and the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) of the human digestive system.
1885 W. Stirling in tr. Landois' Hum.Physiol. 209Any variations in the size of the organ caused a variation in the amount of oil within the box, and these variations were recorded. This instrument Roy termed an ‘*oncograph’.
1933 R. B. Young in Trans. Geol. Soc. S.Afr. XXXV. 32Professor Julius Pia, in Hirmer's Handbuch der Paläobotanik, places the stromatolites among the Schizophyceae and separates them into two groups, the Stromatolithi and the Oncolithi, the latter embracing the forms..that occur as separate or individual bodies. In this paper the term ‘*oncolite’ will be employed in the same sense, but without any implication that the bodies..differ from the rest of the stromatolites in any respect other than that generally they have formed round detached nuclei.
Ibid. 34When they were for a time completely stationary, the oncolitic growth became continuous, spreading over the surface of the bed to form thin but fairly extensive stromatolitic layers.
1967 Jrnl. Sedimentary Petrology XXXVII. 1163/2A carbonate rock of which oncolites form a significant part may be termed oncolitic.
1972 H. Blatt et al. Origin Sedimentary Rocks xii. 422Oncolites..up to 3 in. in diameter, have been found.
1974 Nature 22 Feb. 522/2 Facies E. Concentrically stacked spheroid stromatolites (oncolites).
1906 1st Ann. Rep. Amer. Oncologic Hospital, Philadelphia 3The name of the Corporation shall be The American *Oncologic Hospital.
1952 A. Nettleship BasicPrinc. CancerPract. xix. 389The need for a clinically useful oncologic science is clear.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 May 1131/2The classification of new growths is carried out in accordance with modern *oncological views.
1925 H. Gilford Tumors & Cancers xxvi. 574*Oncologists in general still adhere to older methods of operative treatment, supplemented, it may be, by actinic and other remedies.
1968 Bethell & Burg tr. Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward (1969) i. vii. 96On top of this a society of oncologists had been started recently.
1971 Lancet 21 Aug. 419/2 Although the oncologist's clinical experience with malignant disease is often limited, his pharmacological background has enabled him to make a substantial contribution to the subject.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lex. Med. Sci. (1860) 810*Oncology.
1915 F. L. Hoffman Mortality from Cancer i. 1There are few more interesting subjects for statistical analysis than cancer, or what is, perhaps, more appropriately termed the science of oncology, which comprehends tumors of all kinds, whether malignant or benign or ill-defined.
1968 Bethell & Burg tr. Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward (1969) i. i. 3According to the arrangement with the head doctor of the oncology clinic, the matron was supposed to wait for them at two o'clock in the afternoon.
1971 Nature 19 Feb. 517/3 The Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) last week announced the establishment of..a medical oncology unit.
1885 W. Stirling in tr. Landois' Hum.Physiol. 581An instrument which consists of two parts, one termed the *oncometer or renal plethysmometer, in which the organ is enclosed, while the other part is the registering portion or oncograph.
1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 826It has been demonstrated by means of Roy's onkometer.
1897 Ibid. IV. 316*Oncometric observations show that such substances produce vascular dilatation of the kidneys.
1727–41 Chambers Cycl. ,*Onkotomy, in chirurgery, the operation of opening a tumor, or abscess.
1836 Smart, Oncotomy.
onco-
word-forming element meaning "bulk, mass," especially in medical use, "tumor," from Latinized form of Greek onko-, comb. form of onkos "bulk, size, mass, body."
onco-
I.combining form
or oncho-
Etymology: New Latin, from Greek onkos bulk, mass; akin to Greek enenkein to carry — more at enough
1. : tumor
< oncology >
2. : bulk : mass
< onchosphere >
< oncometer >
II.
— see onc-
I.
or oncho-
1.
< oncology >
2.
< onchosphere >
< oncometer >
II.
— see onc-
onco-
Prefix
- Pertaining to tumors.
Etymology
First attested 1857, from New Latin onco- (“tumor”). from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, mass, bulk”).