apico-とは 意味・読み方・使い方

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From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from apex.

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apico-

1. Having a shape that has a tip, point, or apex; apical, pointy.

   e.g. apicoplast, apicophilicity, Homophoberia apicosa

2. (anatomy) The side of a body part (or organism) that is further away from the substrate it is attached to.

   e.g. apicocardiac, apicolateral, apicomedial

   Antonym: baso-

   usage note: For organisms that are attached to a substrate (e.g. sponges, protists), the side attached to the substrate is referred to as the basal end, and the end furthest from attachment is referred to as apical

3. (linguistics) Articulated with the tip of the tongue.

   e.g. apicoalveolar, apicodental, apicopalatal

   • 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     We present two studies of native and non-native (English) perception of the acoustically and articulatorily similar four-way coronal stop contrast /t ʈ ȶ/ (apico-alveolar, apico-retroflex, lamino-dental, lamino-alveopalatal) of Wubuy, an indigenous language of Australia.

4. (dentistry) Related to the root of a tooth.

   e.g. apicocoronal, apicoectomy

派生語

参考

• dorso-
• lamino-
• radico-

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