词根词缀：suppurant-, suppura-

【来源及含义】Latin: to fester, to form matter; forming or discharging pus

【相关词根词缀】 Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); tabe- (wasting away, decaying). Cross references of word groups that are related, partially or extensively, to: "blister, bump, swelling": bull-; ichor-; papulo-; pemphig-; puro-; pus-; pustu-; pyo-; tum-; vesico-; vesiculo-.

【同源单词】suppurant, suppurantia, suppurate, suppuration, suppurative, suppurative endophthalmitis

词根词缀：surd-, -surd

【来源及含义】Latin: surdus, unheard, silent, dull; deaf

【同源单词】Ab absurdo, absurd, absurdism, absurdist, absurdist, absurdity

词根词缀：surg-, sur-

【来源及含义】Latin: to raise, to erect; to rise

【相关词根词缀】This unit is directly related to the regi-, reg-, rec- family of word units.

【同源单词】assurgent, counterinsurgency, counterinsurgent, counterinsurgent, insurgence, insurgency

词根词缀：sutur-, sutu-

【来源及含义】Latin: sew, stitch

【同源单词】absorbable surgical suture, accouter, accouterment, buried suture, catgut suture, consuture

词根词缀：syco-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: fig [sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit that has numerous tiny seedlike fruits that are eaten fresh or preserved or dried]

【同源单词】sycoceric, sycomancy, sycomore, syconium, sycophage, sycophagous

词根词缀：sylv-, silv-, -sylvia, -silvia

【来源及含义】Latin: woods, forest

【同源单词】In silvam ne ligna feras, Pennsylvania, savage, savagely, savageness, savagery

词根词缀：syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

【来源及含义】Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "equal, identical, same, similar": auto-; emul-; equ-, equi-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer; rhomb-; tauto-.

【同源单词】acrocephalopolysyndactyly, acrocephalosyndactylia, acrocephalosyndactyly, acrosyndesis, allosynapsis, antagonistic symbiosis

词根词缀：syphilo-, syphil-, syphili-, syphi-

【来源及含义】Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" [Syphilus, or the French Disease], published at Verona, Italy [1530]

【相关描述】Syphilis is a venereal disease (of which Fracastoro's hero Syphilus, was a victim) and is caused by the microorganism Treponema pallidum.

Syphilus was a shepard whose name literally means a "friend of swine". Perhaps it was derived from Greek syn-, "together", plus philein "to love", or from Greek siphlos, "crippled, maimed". No one seems to know for certain.

【同源单词】antisyphilitic, dermosyphilopathy, neurosyphilis, syphilide, syphilionthus, syphiliphobia

词根词缀：syringo-, syring-, -syrinx

【来源及含义】Greek: pipe, tube, cavity, fistula; spine

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-. A cross reference of word units that are related, directly and/or indirectly, with "tube, pipe": aulo-; can-, cann-; duc-, -duct (to lead, leading); fistul-; siphon-; tub-.

【同源单词】syringe, syringeal, syringectomy, syringitis, syringobulbia, syringocarcinoma

词根词缀：systol-, -systole, -systolic, -stole

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: contraction; to draw together

【同源单词】bradydiastole, diastole, diastolic, extrasystole, hypodiastole, hyposystole