syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

A type of symbiosis that is beneficial to one symbiont and detrimental to another one; for example, "parasitism".

Aphasia with the inability to employ or to understand either speech or signs.

The loss of power to comprehend the symbolic meaning of things such as words, figures, gestures, and signs.

A lack or absence of symmetry; dissimilarity in corresponding parts of organs on opposite sides of the body that are normally alike.

Separate or distinct; not grown together.

Without symptoms; producing or causing no symptoms.

1. A straight line that a curve continually approaches, but never meets, even if the curve is extended to infinity.
2. A line that draws increasingly nearer to a curve without ever meeting it.
3. From Greek asymptotos, "not falling together," from a-, "not" + syn "with" + ptotos, "fallen"; from piptein, "to fall".

1. Referring to an asymptote.
2. Approaching a given value as an expression containing a variable tends to infinity.
3. Of two functions, so defined that their ratio approaches unity as the independent variable approaches a limit or infinity.
4. With reference to a formula, becoming increasingly exact as a variable approaches a limit, usually infinity.
5. Coming into consideration as a variable approaches a limit, usually infinity: asymptotic property; asymptotic behavior.

A permanent peripheral arterial dilatation resulting from the destruction of sympathetic nerve functions by an endogenous process; such as, the neuropathy that accompanies diabetes mellitus.

A collector of brothel tickets.

In biology, an amicable relationship between ants and lepidopterous [butterfly and moth] larvae, based on the scent produced by the larvae.