chromato- 或 chromat-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Color:
颜色：
chromatophore.
色素粒 - Chromatin:
染色质：
chromatolysis.
染色质溶解
语源
- Greek khrōma khrōmat- [color]
希腊语 khrōma khrōmat- [颜色]
chromato- or (before a vowel) chromat-
combining form
indicating colour or coloured
⇒
chromatophore
indicating chromatin
⇒
chromatolysis
Origin
from Greek khrōma, khrōmat- colourchromato-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “color,” used in the formation of compound words in this sense and in the specialized sense of “chromatin”:
chromatophore; chromatolysis.
Also, especially before a vowel, chromat-.
Origin
< Greek chromat-, stem of chrôma color + -o-
Related Words
- chromatogram
- chromatograph
- chromatography
- chromatology
- chromatolysis
- chromatophil
chromato-1. a word element referring to colour.
2. a word element meaning 'chromatin'.
[Greek, combining form of chroma colour]chromato-
combining form
⇨ see chromat-
combining form
⇨ see chromat-
chromato-
（亦作chromo-）
combining form
- colour; of or in colours.表示“色彩”; “色彩的”, “用色彩表示的”：
-
chromatopsia
chromosome.
词源
from Greek khrōma, khrōmat- 'colour'.
1888 Chromatochyme . [ see chromatocyte]
1852 Maurice in Life (1884) II. iii. 131It will come in illegitimately as a Plutocracy or a Chromatocracy.
1888 W. J. Sollas Tetractinellida p. xl,Chromatocytes or Pigment-Cells... Occasionally by repeated multiplication they form cellular aggregates, or chromatochyme.
1963 I. F. & W. D. Henderson Dict. Biol. Terms 100/1Chromatocyte, any cell containing a pigment.
1860 in Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Chromatogenous..applied to the functions of the derma.
1881 Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v. Chromatogenous diseases, diseases accompanied by discolorations of the skin.
1908 Practitioner Jan. 19 A peri-nuclear chromatolysis of the large psychomotor Betz cells.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxv. 394The parenchyma cells undergo a characteristic necrosis passing from cloudy swelling to fatty degeneration and to nuclear chromatolysis.
1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1452/2Jüngken employs indifferently the denominations of a chromatopsy, chromatopseudopsy, and chromatometablepsy.
1886 Jrnl. R.Microsc. Soc. 640The protoplasm of the chromatophores has been termed by Strasburger chromatoplasm.
1902 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 2) 439Chromatoplasm.., the substance of the chromoplastids and other plastids.
1948 New Biol. V. 10Sometimes in a living specimen (blue-green alga)..it is possible to distinguish two regions in the protoplasm, an outer region in which the pigments are evenly distributed, the chromatoplasm, and a central unpigmented part, the centroplasm.
1849–52 Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1460/2We could never discover in them any trace of chromatopseudopsy.
1848 Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 7) 182/2Chromatopsia.
1873 Richmond & Louisville Med. Jrnl. Jan. 83 (title)Chromatopsia with hyperaesthesia of the retina.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 195/2Even small doses of santonin cause disturbances of vision, usually yellow vision or perhaps green (xanthopsia or chromatopsia).
1947 F. B. Walsh Clin. Neuro-Ophthalmol. xiii. 1193/1In a proven case of temporal lobe tumor, van Bogaert described transient visual phenomena, chromatopsia, . [ etc.]
1879 P. Smith Glaucoma 76To ascertain whether the chromatopsy might be due to an inequality in the size of the pupils.
chromato-
before vowels chromat-, word forming element indicating "color; chromatin," from Latinized form of Greek khromato-, from khroma (see chroma).
chromato-
combining form.
color or the pigment producing it: Chromatology = the science of color.
chromatin: Chromatolysis = the disappearance of chromatin.
Also, chromat- before vowels.
[< Greek chrôma, -atos color]
chromato-
\in pronunciations below, ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ . krō|mad.ə or krə- or -atə, | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ . |krōməd.]ə or -ət] or ]ō\
— see chromat-
— see chromat-
chromato-chromat- chromo- chrom-
Prefix
- A prefix forming words relating to color, such as chromatoscope, chromatography, and chromatophore
Etymology
From Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).
Related terms
Derived terms
English words prefixed with chromato-