organo-, organ-

One who studies plant and animal organs.

1. The sum of what is known regarding the organs of the body.
2. The study of plant and animal organs, in reference to their structure and functions.

A tumor composed of organs or definite portions of an organ.

1. In medicine, A somewhat independent part of the body that performs a special function.
2. A set of principles for use in philosophical or scientific investigation.

The laws of organic life and of living organism.

The technical name of a body organ or the nomenclature of bodily organs.

A disease associated with some structural change of an organ or tissue in the body.

The surgical fixation of an organ (the act or operation of holding, suturing, or fastening in a fixed position).

Organotropic (the special affinity of chemical compounds or of pathogenic agents for particular tissues or organs of the body).

Having the property of forming or producing bodily organs.

The formation or development of bodily organs.

Examination of the organs; another name for phrenology (the scientific study or theory of mental faculties; specifically, the theory that the mental powers of the individual consist of separate faculties, each of which has its organ and location in a definite region of the surface of the brain, the size or development of which is commensurate with the development of the particular faculty. The study of the external conformation of the cranium as an index to the development and position of these organs, and thus of the degree of development of the various faculties).

Produced by or involving sedimentation as affected by living organisms.

1. A tendency of selective migration to some particular organ.
2. A directed response of a motile organism to an organ.

In medicine, the treatment of diseases by administering substances derived from animal organs; such as, bovine insulin, which is used to treat diabetes in humans.