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Word Unit: camer- + (Latin: chamber; from Greek kamara, anything with a vaulted or arched cover; a vault, arched ceiling, or roof).

Word Unit: camp (Latin: flat space, plain; of or pertaining to fields).

Word Unit: campto- (Greek: kamptos, bent).

Word Unit: campylo- (Greek: crooked, bent).

Word Unit: can-, cann- (Greek > Latin: reed, pipe; the word for "reed" in Hebrew, Arabic, and Egyptian was kaneh; then the word element passed into Greek and Latin, and into the languages of western Europe).

Word Unit: cancero-, cancer-, canceri-, cancri-, cancro- (Latin: crab; malignant tumor).

Word Unit: cand-, can-, cend- (Latin: to glow, to glow with heat; to burn; to glitter, to shine; white).

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.

Word Unit: candle- (Latin: taper).

Word Unit: cani-, can- (Latin: dog).

Related "dog" word family: cyno-, kyno-.

Word Unit: cannabi-, cannab- + (Greek: hemp; of or pertaining to hemp's chemical components or derivatives.).

Word Unit: cant-, chant- + (Latin: sing, singing; a song).

Word Unit: cantho-, canth- (Greek > Latin: corner of the eye).

Word Unit: cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (Latin: catch, seize, take, take hold of, receive, contain, take, hold; caught, taken prisoner).

Word Unit: capillaro-, capillar-, capillario-, capilli-, capill- (Latin: of, pertaining to, or resembling hair; minute [hairlike] blood vessels that connect the arterioles and the venules).

Links to other hair-related units: alopec-; barba-; Beards; chaeto-; cirro-; coife; crino-; Hair & Beard Styles; hirsute; pilo-; pogo-; tricho-; villi-.

Word Unit: capit-, capt-, cap-, cep-, ceps-, chapt-, chef, cip- (Latin: head; leader, chief, or first).

Word Unit: capno-, capn-, capnod- + (Greek: smoke; vapor; sooty [extended meaning is carbon dioxide]).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "smoke, smoking": atmido-; Capnomania & Fumimania, Pt. 1; Capnophobia & Fumiphobia, Pt. 1; fumi-; nebula-; typho-.

Word Unit: Capnomania and Fumimania, Part 1 (Part 1 of 4: The Ballad of Salvation Bill by Robert W. Service and additional capnomania-fumimania information about smoking or addiction to tobacco smoke from the past to the present).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "smoke, smoking": atmido-; capno; Capnophobia & Fumiphobia, Pt. 1; fumi-; nebula-; typho-.

Word Unit: Capnomania and Fumimania, Part 2 (Part 2 of 4: "The Ballad of Salvation Bill" by Robert Service was based on experiences he had with a compulsive smoker who just had to smoke because smoking was so important in his life).

Word Unit: Capnomania and Fumimania, Part 3 (Part 3 of 4: smoking and anti-smoking, or anti-tobacco, have been in conflict for more than a century regarding those who smoke).

Word Unit: Capnomania and Fumimania, Part 4 (Part 4 of 4: more historical incidents about smoking and what happens to people who smoke).

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