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  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    arsen(o)-of or pertaining to a male; masculine Greek ἀρσενικός (arsenikós) arsenoblast arteri(o)-of or pertaining to an artery: Greek ἀρτηρία (artēría), a wind-pipe, artery (used distinctly versus a vein) arteriole, artery: arthr-of or pertaining to the joints, limbs Greek ἄρθρον (árthron), a joint, limb arthritis ...

  3. Lactose - Wikipedia

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    Lactose, or milk sugar, is a disaccharide composed of galactose and glucose and has the molecular formula C 12 H 22 O 11.Lactose makes up around 2–8% of milk (by mass). The name comes from lact (gen. lactis), the Latin word for milk, plus the suffix -ose used to name sugars.

  4. Lactic acid - Wikipedia

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    The name reflects the lact-combining form derived from the Latin word lac, meaning "milk". In 1808, Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered that lactic acid (actually L-lactate) is also produced in muscles during exertion. [18] Its structure was established by Johannes Wislicenus in 1873.

  5. Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1] a.c. before meals: ante cibum a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night Omne Nocte a.s., as, AS left ear auris sinistra a.u., au, AU both ears together or each ear aures unitas or auris uterque b.d.s, bds, BDS 2 times a day bis die sumendum b.i.d., bid, BID

  6. Lactation - Wikipedia

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    The chief function of a lactation is to provide nutrition and immune protection to the young after birth. Due to lactation, the mother-young pair can survive even if food is scarce or too hard for the young to attain, expanding the environmental conditions the species can withstand.

  7. Lactococcus lactis - Wikipedia

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    L. lactis does not produce spores (nonsporulating) and are not motile . They have a homofermentative metabolism, meaning they produce lactic acid from sugars. They've also been reported to produce exclusive L-(+)-lactic acid. [3] However, [4] reported D-(−)-lactic acid can be produced when cultured at low pH.

  8. Lactose intolerance - Wikipedia

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    Lactose is often used as the primary filler (main ingredient) in most prescription and non-prescription solid pill form medications, though product labeling seldom mentions the presence of 'lactose' or 'milk', and neither do product monograms provided to pharmacists, and most pharmacists are unaware of the very wide scale yet common use of ...

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages).. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.