See Also: diaphysectomy(medicine)

arian (iou) and diaphysectomy (medicine)


arian (iou)



-arian suffix.
[from Latin -arius -ARY1 + -AN.]
Forming adjectives or corresp. nouns of which the earliest (gen. formations) are disciplinarian (noun), antiquarian, proletarian; (numeral adjectives) quinquagenarian; commonly in terms denoting religious or moral tenets, as Millenarian, sectarian, Unitarian, on the analogy of which were formed humanitarian, utilitarian, etc., and joc. formations as anythingarian.

diaphysectomy (medicine)


diaphysectomy
<procedure> Partial or complete removal of the shaft of a long bone.

Origin: diaphysis + G. Ektome, excision