Click on the elements of interest for more details,
or make a new query .
The numbers that are shown in the parentheses indicate how
many of your word queries appear in each category.
- 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) (two matching results)
- 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) (two matching results)
- laparo-, lapar- (Greek: the soft part of the body between the ribs and the hip, flank, loin; denotes the flank or loins and the abdominal wall) (one matching result)
- ili- (Latin: flank, hip) (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)
- jejuno-, jejun- (Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food") (one matching result)