tubo-
(tjuːbəʊ)
used in certain cases as combining form of L. tubus tube (instead of the usual Latin form tubi-: see -o1) in several terms of zoology, anatomy, etc. a. Zool. in adjs. denoting a combination of tubular with some other form, as ˌtubo-laˈbellate, tubo-ˈnariform. b. Anat., etc. in terms relating to the Fallopian (rarely, the Eustachian) tube in connexion with some other part; chiefly adjs., as ˌtubo-abˈdominal (pertaining to or occurring in the Fallopian tube and the abdomen), tubo-ligaˈmentous, tubo-oˈvarian, tubo-peritoˈneal, tubo-ˈuterine, tubo-vaˈginal; ˌtubo-ˈtympanal (pertaining to the Eustachian tube and the tympanum); rarely ns. as ˌtubo-ovariˈotomy (excision of the Fallopian tube and ovary).
| 1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 432 The nariform calicle is tubular at base—tubo-nariform. Ibid. 444 Corallum having the calicles tubo-labellate. 1857 Bullock Cazeaux' Midwif. 245 Tubo-ovarian Pregnancy. Ibid. 246 Tubo-abdominal Pregnancy. 1889 J. M. Duncan Lect. Dis. Woman viii. (ed. 4) 243 An interstitial pregnancy may become tubo⁓uterine. 1900–13 Dorland Med. Dict., Tuboligamentous, pertaining to an oviduct and a broad ligament. Tubo⁓ovarial, tubo-ovarian,..Tubo-ovariotomy,..Tuboperitoneal Tubotympanal,..Tubovaginal. |