strepto-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Twisted; twisted chain:
扭曲的；螺旋链：
streptococcus.
链球菌 - Streptococcus:
链球菌：
streptolysin.
链球菌溶血素 - Streptomyces:
链霉素：
streptonigrin.
链霉黑素
语源
- From Greek streptos
源自 希腊语 streptos - from strephein [to turn] * see streb(h)-
源自 strephein [翻转] *参见 streb(h)-
strepto-
combining form
indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
⇒
streptococcus
indicating streptococcus
⇒
streptolysin
Origin
from Greek streptos twisted, from strephein to twiststrepto-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “twisted,” used in the formation of compound words:
streptococcus.
Origin
combining form of Greek streptós pliant, twisted, twined, equivalent to strep- (variant stem of stréphein to twist) + -tos verbid suffix
Related Words
- streptomyces
- strepsipterous
- streptobacillus
- streptocarpus
- streptococcus
- streptodornase
strepto-a word element meaning 'curved', as in streptococcus.
[Greek, combining form of streptos]strepto-
combining form
streptococcus
2. streptococcus
streptokinase
combining form
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek, from streptos twisted, from strephein to twist
1. twisted : twisted chainstreptococcus
2. streptococcus
streptokinase
strepto-
combining form
- twisted; in the form of a twisted chain表示“链的”：
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streptomycete.
- ■ associated with streptococci or streptomycetes表示“链球菌”, “链霉菌”：
-
streptokinase.
词源
from Greek streptos 'twisted', from strephein 'to turn'.
1888 W. J. Sollas in ChallengerRep. XXV. p. lxiii,The asters are divided into two subsections, the true asters or euasters, and the *streptasters or those in which the actines do not proceed from a centre, but from a longer or shorter axis, which is usually spiral.
1900 E. A. Minchin in Ray Lankester'sTreat. Zool. ii. Sponges 134.
1903 Thayer Schmaus'Path. &Pathol. Anat. 202Bacilli. Long or short rods, propagate by fission or spores; the former by fission or crosswise, the younger forms separating or connected (*streptobacilli).
1883 *Streptobacteria . [ see diplococcis.v. diplo-]
1891 G. S. Woodhead Bacteria 31In the rod-shaped bacteria this division takes place..and when it is imperfect or incomplete it gives rise to chain-bacteria or Strepto-bacteria.
1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 688Schottelius found in the contents of foot-and-mouth vesicles peculiar bodies which he termed *streptocytes.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 571The neutralization curves of..bodies and their antibodies: the rennet.., the vibriolysin, the staphylolysin, and the *streptolysin.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 646/2The *Streptoneurous condition of the visceral loop in Zygobranchia.
1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 111Certain streptoneurous Gastropoda Anisopleura.
1892 Proc. Zool. Soc. 183Ophiobyrsa hystricis. The largest *Streptophiurid found within the British area is the species so named by Mr. Lyman.
1849 A. G. Melville in Phil. Trans. CXXXIX. 286The *Streptospondylian form of the body of a vertebra.
Ibid. ,The Streptospondylian type is not..persistent.
1892 Proc. Zool. Soc. 179Ophioteresis is a *streptospondyline Ophiurid.
1901 Nature 14 Mar. 462/2 The *streptostylic types appear first in the Jurassic as Lacertilia.
1933 Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. XXXVII. 524A comparison of the streptostylic condition in these salamanders with that in certain reptiles..shows great differences in both skeleton and muscles, such that no homology is possible.
1980 Nature 21 Feb. 779/1 Streptostylic quadrates are found in fossil lizards before the appearance of mesokinesis and occur in animals with limited mesokinetic potential such as Uromastix and Ctenosaura.
1887 E. D. Cope Orig. Fittest xi. 337The existing *streptostylicate orders have advanced beyond their Permian ancestors.
1925 J. S. Kingsley Vertebrate Skeleton (ed. 2) 335/2 (Index),*Streptostyly.
1933 Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool. XXXVII. 521In a study of some Pacific coast salamanders, it was found that at least three species..possess a pivoting squamosal... Streptostyly, so far as the writer has been able to learn, is otherwise unknown in Amphibia.
1973 Nature 11 May 72/2 The articulation of the maxillae with the nasals and premaxillae reveals how streptostyly was associated with an akinetic skull in Hesperornis.
strepto-
word-forming element used in science to mean "twisted," from Latinized comb. form of Greek streptos "twisted, easy to bend, pliant," verbal adjective of strephein "to turn, twist," from PIE *streb(h)- "to wind, turn" (see strophe).
ORIGIN: Greek , combining form of streptos twisted, from strephein turn, twist.
strepto-
combining form.
twisted or linked; resembling chains: Streptococcus = a group of bacteria that occur in chains.
streptococcus: Streptokinase = an enzyme derived from streptococci.
[< Greek streptós twisted; a chain or linked collar < stréphein to twist, turn]
strepto-
Prefix
- twisted
- having the form of a twisted chain
Etymology
Ancient Greek στρεπτός (streptós, “twisted”) from στρέφειν (stréphein, “to twist”), from Proto-Indo-European *streb(h)- (“to wind, turn, twist”).