sclero- 或 scler-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Hard:
硬的：
sclerite.
骨片 - Hardness:
硬：
sclerometer.
硬度计 - Sclera:
巩膜：
scleritis.
巩膜炎
语源
- Greek sklēro-
希腊语 sklēro- - from sklēros [hard]
源自 sklēros [硬的]
sclero- or (before a vowel) scler-
combining form
indicating hardness
⇒
sclerosis
of or relating to the sclera
⇒
sclerotomy
Origin
from Greek sklēros hardsclero-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “hard,” used with this meaning, and as a combining form of sclera, in the formation of compound words:
sclerometer.
Also, especially before a vowel, scler-.
Origin
combining form of Greek sklērós hard
Related Words
- scleroderma
- sclerodermatous
- sclerometer
- sclerophyll
- sclerophylly
- scleroprotein
sclero-a word element meaning 'hard'.
Also, (before vowels), scler-. [New Latin, from Greek sklēro-, combining form of sklēros]
sclero-
combining form
⇨ see scler-
combining form
⇨ see scler-
sclero-
combining form
- hard; hardened; hardening表示“硬的”; “硬化的”; “硬化”：
-
scleroderma
sclerotherapy
词源
from Greek sklēros 'hard'.
1934 Webster, *Scleroblastema.
1968 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xviii. 11/2Each vertebra is laid down as a densely cellular mesenchymal precursor, the scleroblastema; this transforms into a cartilage model which is subsequently replaced by bone by the process of endochondral ossification.
1854 A. Adams, etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 163*Sclerobrachiate-Brachiopods (Sclerobrachiata).
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 676The fingers ‘clawed’ (*sclerodactyle, acroscleroderma). [ may become]
1897 Ibid. II. 74Well-advanced cases have frequently been confounded with..*sclerodactyly [ of leprosy] . [ etc.]
1932 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 3 Sept. 822/1*Scleredema adultorum is characterized by progressive induration and swelling of the deeper portions of the skin and subcutaneous tissues.
Ibid. 825/1Scleredema always involutes spontaneously without subsequent atrophy of the affected tissues.
1946 New England Jrnl. Med. 15 Aug. 209/1The appearance of a patient with scleredema is so striking as to suggest the diagnosis immediately.
1976 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXIX. 844/2Sclerœdema is characterized by sudden onset of diffuse symmetrical hardening of the skin of the face, neck and upper arms.
1907 Halliburton & Hopkins in Jrnl. Physiol. XXXV. p. xix,*Sclero-proteins. This new word takes the place of the word albuminoid... It includes such substances as gelatin and keratin; the prefix indicates the skeletal origin and often insoluble nature of its members.
1958 Immunology I. 49 Some of the scleroproteins comprising the scale plate are antigenic, but are only slowly digested by homologous recipients.
1970 R. M. Black ElementsPalaeont. ii. 8The matrix of bone consists mainly of collagen (a fibrous scleroprotein) hardened by mineral salts.
1977 A. Hallam Planet Earth 241More usually, however, only the most resistant and stable organic materials can survive long after death, as with the lignified tissues of fossil land plants and the scleroprotein skeleton of the extinct fossil graptolites.
1884 Coues Key N.Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 134Certain bones developed apart from the systematic endo⁓skeleton, in fibrous tissue, are called *scleroskeletal.
1854 Owen in Circ. Sci. ,Org. Nat. I. 163Those developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses, [ bones] the ‘*sclero-skeleton’. [ form]
1944 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. LXVI. 363The advantages of *sclerotherapy are low morbidity, almost no mortality and no necessity for hospitalization... The disadvantage is the very high incidence of recurrence.
1977 Lancet 25 June 1343/1 F. Bezzouni of Russia has an approach similar to that of most surgeons in Britain—injection sclerotherapy for small, below-knee varices and high ligation and stripping for gross main-stem incompetence.
1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 3The plan I now adopt is to make a very small incision in the sclero-corneal junction.
1876 Pharm. Jrnl. 17 June 1001/1Scleromucin.
Ibid. 1001/2Sclererythrin. Scleroiodin.
Ibid. 1002/1Scleroxanthin. Sclerokrystallin.
1878 F. H. Butler in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 521minute quantities of sclererythrin, scleroiodin, with sclerokrystallin, scleroxanthin, and other substances. [ Ergot contains]
sclero-
before vowels scler-, word-forming element meaning "hard," from Latinized form of Greek sklero-, comb. form of skleros "hard," related to skellein "to dry up, parch," from PIE *skle-ro-, from root *skele- "to parch, wither."
ORIGIN: from Greek sklēros hard: see -o-
sclero-
combining form.
hard: Sclerodermatous = having a hard body covering.
having to do with the sclerotic coat of the eyeball: Scleroiritis = inflammation of the sclerotic coat and iris of the eye.
Also, scler- before vowels.
[< Greek sklērós]
sclero-
combining form
see scler-
see scler-