词根词缀：calci-, calc-, calcane-, calcio-, calco-, calcar-, calx

【来源及含义】Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread [derived from calx, calcis, limestone, lime, pebble; from Greek words halix and psephos meaning "small stone, pebble"]

【同源单词】a capite ad calcem, acalculia, astragalocalcanean, calcaneal, calcanean, calcaneitis

词根词缀：calyc-, calyci-, calyx-

【来源及含义】Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud"

【同源单词】calicectomy, calycanthemous, calyces, calyciflorous, calyciform, calycine

词根词缀：-ectomy, -ectome, -ectomize

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; cut, excise, surgical removal of

【相关词根词缀】 Related cutting-word units: cast-; castrat-; -cise, -cide; mutil-; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.

【同源单词】abdominal hysterectomy, abdominal nephrectomy, abdominohysterectomy, acetabulectomy, acromionectomy, adenectomy