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Word Unit: pung-, punc-, punct-, point (Latin: pungere, punctum, to punch, to pierce, to sting, to bite; a dot, a mark; a point, a sharp point, a pinpoint).

Word Unit: pupillo-, pupill- + (Latin: [diminutive of pupa, a young girl, doll or puppets] the pupil of the eye; including the larva of insects).

Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenti-, lens-; lenticulo-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; ophthalmo-; phaco-; retino-; uveo-.

Word Unit: purg- (Latin: clean, cleanse, purify).

Word Unit: puro-, puru- (Latin: pus).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Word Unit: pus (Latin: viscous matter; yellowish matter produced by an infection).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Word Unit: -pus + (Greek: foot).

Related "foot, feet" units: melo-; ped-; planta-; podo-.

Word Unit: pusill- + (Latin: very weak, little, very small).

Word Unit: pustu- + (Latin: blister, pimple).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "skin": callus-; chorio-; cicatri- (scar); cori-; cuti-; hymen-; lepido- (scab, scale); papulo- (pimple); psoro- (itch, mange); rhytid- (wrinkle); scabio- (mange, itchy); sebo- (grease, oil).

Word Unit: put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative + (Latin: to think over, to consider, to reckon, to count; to trim, to prune, to lop, to cut, to clean).

Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.

Word Unit: putre-, putri-, putid- + (Latin: rotten, decayed; to be rotten, to become rotten, to decay).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Word Unit: pycn-, pycno-, pykn-, pykno- + (Greek: close, compact, thick, dense; frequent).

Word Unit: pyel-, pyelo- (Greek: pelvis, especially of the kidney; from "tub, vat, basin, and trough").

Word Unit: pyg-, pygo-, -pyga, -pygia + (Greek: rump, buttocks, bottom; rear end; butt; the posterior part of the body).

Word families with similar applications: "back, backside" word units: dorso- (back, on the back); lumbo- (loin, lower back); nuch- (nape of the neck).

Word Unit: pyl-, pyle- (Greek: door, gate, entrance; orifice).

Word Unit: pylor-, pyloro-, pylori- (Greek: gatekeeper; lower gastric orifice through which the contents of the stomach enter the duodenum).

Word Unit: pyo-, py- + (Greek: pus; purulent).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Word Unit: pyreto-, -pyrexia, -pyrexias, pyrito- (Greek: fever, burning heat).

Related "heat, hot" word units: ferv-; thermo-.

Word Unit: pyro-, pyr- + (Greek: fire, burn; heat, produced by heating; and sometimes "fever").

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