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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

condro-

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kondro

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chondro/ˈkɒn.droʊ/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O prefixo condro- está associado às estruturas de cartilagem."

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As combining form
  1. 1

    A combining form meaning cartilage or relating to cartilage, used in the formation of compound words in medicine and biology.

    "Chondrocyte is the primary cellular component found in healthy cartilage tissue."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Ancient Greek word khondros, meaning cartilage, grain, or lump. It entered modern scientific and medical terminology through New Latin combining forms in the 19th century to denote structures related to cartilage.

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