词根词缀：mutil-

【来源及含义】Latin: mutilatus, mutilare; to cut off, to lop off; to maim, to mangle

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

【同源单词】mutilate, mutilated, mutilation, mutilative, mutilator, mutilatory

词根词缀：pero-

【来源及含义】Greek: maimed, crippled; deformed, malformed

【同源单词】perobrachius, perocephalus, perocephaly, perochirus, perodactylus, perodactyly

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：trunc-, truncat-

【来源及含义】Latin: to maim, to cut off; mutilated; cut short

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

【同源单词】alitrunk, celiac trunk, lumbosacral trunk, pulmonary trunk, truncal, truncate