▪ I. septo-1
comb. form of Gr. σηπτός (see septon), as in: ˌseptodiarrhœa, septic diarrhœa (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1898); septoˈgenic a., producing sepsis; ˈseptogerm, a septic germ; sepˈtometer, an instrument for the detection of organic impurities in the atmospheric air (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
| 1880 MacCormac Antisept. Surg. 104 There is a septogenic element in ordinary air. Ibid. 107 Experiment and clinical experience alike show that it will kill a certain proportion of septo-germs. |
▪ II. septo-2 used as comb. form of
septum, as in:
septoceˈphalic a. (see
quot.);
septoˈcephaly, the condition of being septocephalic;
septo-maˈxillary, applied to a small bone lying above the vomer in some birds and fishes;
sepˈtometer, an instrument for measuring the nasal septum;
sepˈtostomy Surg. [
-stomy], the surgical creation of a hole through the atrial septum;
sepˈtotomy Surg. [
-tomy]
= prec.| 1878 Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthrop. i. v. 176 *Septocephalic, microcephalic, small skull. Ibid. Index, Septocephaly. |
| 1874 W. K. Parker in Trans. Linnean Soc. Ser. ii. Zool. (1879) I. 8 The bones figured are what I at first called in the Reptile ‘prævomers’, and now call ‘*septo-maxillaries’. Ibid. 9 The main septo-maxillary piece. |
| 1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 435 An ingenious ‘*septometer’ has been invented by Seiler, which serves to distinguish thickening [of the septum] from deviation when these affections occur separately. |
| 1967 Circulation XXXVI. Suppl. 217/1 At the time of the diagnostic catheterization, atrial *septostomy is performed by the balloon-catheter technique. 1977 Lancet 18 June 1276/1 The arterial oxygen saturation was 34% and did not improve after balloon septostomy. |
| 1966 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 June 992/2 Early clinical trials on infants with TGV [i.e. transposition of the great vessels] indicate that the procedure is as effective in prolonging life as surgical *septotomy. |