oleo-, ole-, -oleic, ol- +

The treatment of an illness with an oil given internally or applied externally.

A condition in which a lung is compressed in the treatment of tuberculosis by injections of sterile oil.

A solution of a vitamin in oil.

A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

Shaped like an olive.

1. The oil tree, Olea europaea, of the Oleaceae.

Its fruit yields olive oil, a fixed oil that consists chiefly of olein and palmitin; and is used as a nutritive food; in medicine as a laxative, as an emolient external application to wounds or burns, and as an ingredient of liniments and ointments.

2. An ovoid device small enough to fit on the tip of a vein stripper.

This prevents damaging the vein as the stripper is pushed into it.

1. A British term for gasoline (gas) for motor-driven vehicles.
2. A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane, octane, etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines.
3. Etymology: "gasoline" from French pétrol (1892); earlier used (1585) in reference to the unrefined substance, from Middle French petrole, "petroleum"; from Old French; from Modern Latin petroleum.

A translucent, oily, semisolid, amorphous, yellowish or whitish mass obtained from petroleum and used as a lubricant, as a rust preventive, and in cosmetics and medicine.

Abounding in or containing petroleum.

A naturally occurring liquid mixture of complex hydrocarbon compounds that yields combustible fuels, petrochemicals, and lubricants upon distillation; usually found in deposits beneath the earth's surface and thought to have originated from plant and animal remains of the geologic past.

It is by far the most widely used fuel source in the industrialized world and is also used in many industrial products; such as, plastics, synthetic fibers, and drugs.

A form of seborrhea characterized by an excessive oiliness of the skin; especially, in the area of the forehead and the nose.