ganglio-, gangli-

(Greek > Latin: swelling, a knot; center of a cavity; nerve center; pertaining to a mass of nerve tissue)

According to Galen [Galenius or Galenos], Clausius [Clarissmus], a Greek physician and medical scientist in Rome c. A.D. 130-201; the proper sense of the element is "anything gathered into a ball," conglobatus.


ganglia
gangliated
gangliform
ganglion
ganglionated
ganglionectomy
Surgical removal of an autonomic or sensory ganglion (group of nerve cell bodies located outside the central nervous system).
ganglioneuroma
ganglioneuromatosis
ganglionic
ganglionitis
ganglionostomy (s) (noun), ganglionostomies (pl)
A surgical procedure that makes an opening into a ganglion: Dr. Smith explained to Sharon that he was going to perform a ganglionostomy in order to remove the ganglion she had in her wrist.
ganglioplegic
ganglioside
gangliosidosis