infra-, infero-, infer-
(Latin: under, below, beneath)
infrastructure (s), infrastructures (pl) (noun forms)
1. An underlying base or foundation; especially, for an organization or a system.
2. The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society; such as, transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons: "More money needs to be spent in order to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation."
3. Etymology: from 1927, from French infrastructure; from Latin infra-, "below, underneath, beneath" + structure, "a fitting together, adjustment, building"; from structus and struere, "to pile, to build, to assemble".
2. The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society; such as, transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons: "More money needs to be spent in order to save the crumbling infrastructure of the nation."
3. Etymology: from 1927, from French infrastructure; from Latin infra-, "below, underneath, beneath" + structure, "a fitting together, adjustment, building"; from structus and struere, "to pile, to build, to assemble".
The installations that form the basis for any operation or system; originally it was in a military sense.
infratracheal
infraversion
posteroinferior
Situated posteriorly and inferiorly.
