psammo-, psamm-, psamme-

A sarcoma or fleshy tumor with sand-like calcareous particles.

A plant succession originating in a sandy area, as on sand dunes.

The use of heated sand, or sand baths, to alleviate painful conditions.

Sandy.

A word meaning literally "pertaining to the working of (or in) sand"; an esoteric term in used in Alchemy.

1. An ecological succession that begins in an environment of barren sand.
2. A sere (one stage in a sequence of events) originating on sand or sandy soil.

1. Organisms swimming above sand that are dependent on it for food.
2. Aquatic organisms swimming above a sand substratum but deriving their food from the surface of that substratum.

Any inorganic or uratic urinary sediment.