grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia

The science of the geographical distribution of living things, animal (zoogeography) and vegetable (phytogeography): Biogeography is the study of the geographical distributions of organisms, their habitats (ecological biogeography), and the historical and biological factors that produced them (historical biogeography).

1. A written presentation of a biography or life stories.
2. An instrument for analyzing and rendering visible the movements of animals; used in diagnosis of certain nervous diseases.

1. The contents of a biography.
2. The person whose life is described in a biography.

Someone who writes about the lives of other people and excluding oneself.

1. A reference to an account of someone’s life in the form of a book, movie, or television program, written or produced by another person.
2. Descriptive term for books about people’s lives, considered as a whole or as a type of literature.

1. Of, relating to, or dealing with a biography or the written account of another person's life.
2. Referring to, or pertaining to, people's lives when writing about them.

1. The history of the lives of individual men and women, as a branch of literature.
2. The written record of the life of an individual.
3. The life-course of a man or other living being; the “life-history” of an animal or plant.

The study of oceanic or sea life of plants and animal lives in relation to their marine environment.

The study of the flora (plants) and fauna (animals) of oceans in relation to their marine environments.

The branch of biology that deals with the natural history of living organisms.

An obsolete or out dated term for the making of x-ray pictures of objects in motion.

The study and classification of rock sections based on their fossil contents.

The discoloration of the skin by metal that appears after rubbing on it with a blunt point: Black dermatographias are often the result of scratches, involving contact with other materials, and it can be confused with an allergic reaction, when in fact it is the act of being scratched that causes an image to appear.

These black dermatographias appear within minutes, in some cases accompanied by itching.

In normal situations, the swelling of black dermatographias will decrease without treatment within 15–30 minutes; however, in extreme cases, itchy red welts may last anywhere from a few hours to several days.

The scientific description of the buds of plants or the botany of vegetations.

A body area that is used to measure lung volume and pressure.

This body plethysmograph device is used for studying alveolar pressures, lung volumes, and airway resistance. The patient sits or reclines in an airtight compartment and breathes normally.

The pressure of the body plethysmograph changes in the alveoli (tiny sac for holding air in the lungs) when it is alternated by the direction of motions in the compartment and are recorded automatically.