syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

1. Spinal fusion or the surgical creation of ankylosis between contiguous vertebrae or a surgical procedure in which vertebrae are joined.
2. A procedure that involves the fusing together of two or more vertebrae in the spine using either bone grafts or metal rods (Harrington rods).

1. A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded by, followed by, or surrounded by one or more consonants.
2. One or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable.
3.Etymology: from Anglo-French sillable, from Old French sillabe, from Latin syllaba, from Greek syllabe, "a syllable, several sounds or letters taken together"; literally, "a taking together" from syn-, "together" + stem of lambanein, "to take".

1. A summary or list of the main topics of a course of study, text, or academic lecture.
2. A short note that precedes the report of a legal case which has been decided and that summarizes the ruling.

The physiological study of conception and pregnancy.

1. In medicine, the fertilization of the ovum by the spermatozoon, occurring in the human female usually about the twelfth to fifteenth day after the first day of menstrual flow.
2. The use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one of them: "Neither my wife nor I want to" is an example of syllepsis, where "want" agrees with "I" but not "wife".
3. The use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but has a different meaning in relation to each; for example, "Mary picked up her coat and a ride home."

1. An argument or form of reasoning in which two statements or premises are made and a logical conclusion drawn from them.

Example: All mammals are warm-blooded (major premise); whales are mammals (minor premise); therefore, whales are warm-blooded (conclusion).
2. Reasoning from the general to the particular; deductive logic.
3. An instance of subtle, tricky, or specious reasoning; or one that seems true but is actually false or deceptive.

1. A stethoscope fitted with two chest pieces, allowing for a lateral comparison of sounds. Its use assists in locating a lesion in the chest by comparing the different sounds detected by the two chest pieces.
2. A special type of double stethoscope making possible the comparison of sounds and the detection of their directions.

The study of symbiosis.

An organism associated with another in symbiosis; a symbiotic organism.

1. An organism that is associated with another one in symbiosis.
2. A special application of this term refers to tiny sea organisms which live on the mouthparts or mouth hairs of the Norwegian lobsters where they feed on the leftovers from the lobsters' meals and they seem to be harmless to their hosts.

They were discovered in 1995 by Danish scientists Reinhardt Kristensen (professor, curator of the Natural History Museum of Denmark) and Peter Funch (Associate Professor, Ecology & Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark) and they were classified as Cycliophora, a new phylum of creatures.

Symbions have no legs, but each one keeps itself in place with a short stalk ending in an adhesive disc that attaches to the host lobster's mouth hairs.

Apparently there are two other species of symbions: one lives on American lobsters, and another, which may not be a distinct species, lives on European lobsters.

The Latin term is Symbion pandora.

A reference to an organism that is associated with another organism in symbiosis.

An organism participating in a symbiotic relationship.

The term tends to be used more in reference to mutualists (relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other) than to parasites, commensals (relationship in which one species derives some benefit while the other is unaffected), or other types of symbionts.

A fear of any intimate association with another life form or a dependency on another person.

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Living with other species is an example of symbiosis and that is what you will see here.

An organism or species living in a state of symbiosis.