See Also: squamo-(medicine)
squamo-(dictionary)
squamo-occipital(medicine)

squamo- (iou)



squamo- combining form.
[from SQUAMA, SQUAMOUS + -O-.]
Anatomy & Zoology. Forming adjectives with the senses (a) pertaining to the squama of (the bone denoted by the 2nd elem.), as squamo-occipital, squamo-temporal; (b) squamous, as squamo-epithelial. Cf. SQUAMOSO-.
squamoco'lumnar adjective designating the junction between stratified squamous epithelium and columnar epithelium M20.