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(Greek: a suffix; little, small)
(Latin: something that is inferior, small, or shallow; expressing incomplete resemblance)
(Greek: short, shortness, small [also expressed as "slow"])
(Latin: small, insignificant)
(Latin: a suffix; small, tiny; also, result of the act of, means of)
(French: a suffix; small)
(French: small, little)
(Greek: thin, small, fine, delicate, mild; from "peeled, husked"; used primarily in the sense of "abnormally thin, narrow, slender, or delicate")
(Greek: small, tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Latin: small, little, less; decline, decrease, diminish; become less, reduce, becoming smaller or shorter)
(Latin: [parvus] small, little; minute, minuscule)
(Latin: uneasiness, anxiety, doubt, especially, over a moral issue; literally, "small, sharp stone or pebble")
(Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular)
(Latin: suffix; little, small)
(Latin: suffix; little, small)
(Latin: a suffix; little, small)
(Latin: a suffix; little, small)
(Latin: [small] blister; literally, "small bladder")
(Latin: trough, channel; small cavity, small pit; hollow)
(Greek: thin, slight, weak; small space)
(Greek > Latin: windpipe, artery; arteriole, "small artery")
(Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread; derived from calx, calcis, "limestone, lime, pebble"; from Greek words halix and psephos, "small stone, pebble".)
(Latin: a small box or chest; repository, case; enveloping or surrounding a structure)
(Latin: a small cell, consisting of cells; a small storeroom)
(Greek: choledochos, from chole, "bile" + dechomai, "to receive"; the common bile duct or tube; conveying bile; containing bile, which is a yellow-green fluid that is made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and passes through the common bile duct into the first section of the small intestine or duodenum where it helps to digest fat)
(Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)
(Greek: uvula; the small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue)
(Latin: first part of the small intestine; based on duodecim, "twelve", because its length is approximately twelve finger-breadths)
(Latin: small fiber or filament)
(Latin: window; in anatomy, a small opening in a bone; to bring to light, to show)
(Latin: from fuscus, a small rush basket; then, a purse, public purse, public revenue)
(Latin: crumble, fragile, broken into small pieces)
(Greek: write, writing, something written, a written record, a recording; letters; words; later, a small weight, a unit of mass in the metric system)
(Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")
(Latin: small pit, gap)
(Old English: a small or tiny insect; acurus)
(Greek: dwarf, dwarfish; pygmy; "little old man;" very small or tiny; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek: prefix; scanty, little, meager, tiny, infrequent; abnormally few or small)
(Latin: swing, vibrate, move, motion; from oscillum, a diminutive form of osoris, "mouth, face, small face")
(Greek: shield; small-light shield)
(Greek: pemphix, "blister"; blistering skin diseases or a swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation; a bump or small swelling on or beneath the skin)
(Italian: very small or from Spanish, "beak, tip, very small"; and from Latin, beccus, beak; also, a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
(Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract)
(Latin: very weak, little, very small)
(Latin: net, small net; a netlike structure, a network)
(Latin: small rounded mass of tissue, especially of lymphoid tissue; tonsil)
(Latin: steam, mist, very small drops of water)
(Latin: [little] belly; hence, "a small cavity; especially of the heart or brain")
(Latin: tuft of hair, fleece; a villus, a small protrusion, especially arising from a mucous membrane)
Word Entries containing the term: “small
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
This entry is located in the following unit: paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia (page 1)
small intestine absorption
Absorption of digestive products that occurs in the small intestine; especially, the ileum.

Products of digestion absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract pass into either blood or lymph. The mesenteric veins unite to form the portal vein and to carry such blood to the liver, the mesenteric lymphatics are called lacteals because, during absorption of a fatty meal, the lymph they contain, called chyle, looks milky.

This entry is located in the following unit: sorb-, sorpt- + (page 4)
small sciatic nerve
The posterior femoral cutaneous nerve, a cutaneous nerve supplying the skin of the buttocks, perineum (region of the abdomen surrounding the urogenital and anal openings), popliteal region (area behind the knee joint), and the back of the thigh and the leg.
This entry is located in the following units: nervo-, nerv-, nervi- (page 3) sciatica, sciatic + (page 1)
small speck
This entry is located in the following unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (page 21)