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- entero-, enter- (Greek: intestine, gut) (one matching result)
- ceco-, cec-, caeco-, caec- (Latin: blind, blind gut [first part of the large intestine, forming a dilated pouch into which open the ileum, the colon, and the appendix vermiformis]; any blind pouch) (one matching result)
- chordo-, chord-, cordo-, cord- (Greek: gut string [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ; string, cord) (one matching result)
- ileo-, ile- (Greek > Latin: ile, ileum, or ilium [singular], ilia [plural], groin, flank, lower part of the body, gut, bowels, abdomen, loins; from Greek eileos, verbal of eilein, to roll or twist up tightly; used earlier interchangeably with ilium, but later referred to the entire intestine], last division of the small intestine) (one matching result)
- physo-, phys- (Greek: breath, wind; pertaining to air or gas; bellows, bladder, bubble; swollen; as seen in many modern scientific terms) (one matching result)
- ilio-, ili- (Greek > Latin: [ile, ileum, or ilium [singular], ilia [plural], groin, flank, lower part of the body, gut, bowels, abdomen, loins, from Greek eileos, verbal of eilein to roil or twist up tightly; previously used interchangeably with ileum, but later used with os, bone [os ilium] to denote the bone of the soft parts], hip bone) (one matching result)
- typhlo-, typhl- (Greek: blind, blindness [typhlos, blind]; denotes relationship to the cecum or the first part of the large intestine, forming a dilated pouch; also called the "blindgut" or "blind intestine" [caecum, "blind, blind gut", typhlon, cecum]) (one matching result)
- diverticul- (Latin: [from di-, "apart" and vertere, "to turn"] by-road, digression, deviation; to turn away, go in different directions) (one matching result)