See Also: arthro-(medicine)
Arthro-(health)
arthro-(dictionary)
arthro-ophthalmopathy(medicine)
hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy(medicine)

coarctate (iou) and Arthro- (health)


coarctate (iou)



coarctate adjective. LME.
[Latin coar(c)tatus pa. pple of coar(c)tare: see COARCT, -ATE2.]
Pressed close together, contracted, confined. LME.
Entomology. (Of a pupa) formed within and remaining concealed by the larval cuticle; (of metamorphosis) resulting in such a pupa. E19.

Arthro- (health)


A prefix meaning joint, as in arthropathy and arthroscopic. Before a vowel, it becomes arthr-, as in arthralgia and arthritis. From the Greek word arthron for joint. Ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to join or to fit together.