ne-, neo- +

1. A newly created word meaning, proliferation of neologisms or newly created words.
2. A combination of neo, "new"; logo, "word"; and proliferation, "rapid and often excessive spread or increase".

1. The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; such as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.
2. A new doctrine; especially, a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.

A doctrine which advocates birth control, abortion, and sterilization, together or separately, in order to curb population growth.

Based on the theory that population increases faster than food supplies and is checked only by famine, disease, and war. Named for Thomas Robert Malthus, an English political economist, 1766-1834.

A new, or false, membrane.

1. The time of the new moon.
2. The beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

The stereotypical repetition of gestures, or movements, that are senseless to an observer and meaningful only to the one who is performing the expressed actions.

A type of recrystallizaton in which the mineral constituents of a rock are transformed into entirely new minerals.

Having a good memory for events of the recent past.

1. A structure, part, or organ developed independently; that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a formally existing form.
2. A new formation or development that is not inherited from a similar structure in an ancestor.
3. An entirely new feature or characteristic that has recently appeared in the course of evolutionary development.

1. A newly acquired bodily organ or part.
2. In biology, the development of a new form.

Regeneration in cases where the new part is unlike anything in the body.

Newly dead or recently died.

A corpse immediately after death.

An antibiotic with a wide range of effectiveness.

Source: the bacterium Streptomyces fradiae. Use: treatment of skin, eye, and intestinal infections.

1. A colorless, odorless gaseous element that occurs in very small quantities in the air and glows orange when electricity is passed through it.
2. Lighting produced by neon lights, or by lamps, containing similar gases; such as, argon or krypton.
3. Etymology: coined by W. Ramsay and M. Travers in 1898, from Greek neon, from neos, "new"; so called because it was "newly discovered".