acro-, acr- +

Edema (an accumulation of an excessive amount of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities) of hand or foot, often permanent.

1. Increased sensitiveness.
2. Pain in bodily extremities or hyperesthesia of one or more of the extremities; such as, in the hands, fingers, feet, toes, etc.

A plant, such as a fern or moss, having a perennial stem with the growing point at the tip.

1. Premature aging of the skin on the extremities (hands and feet) accompanied by wrinkling.
2. Congenital reduction or loss of subcutaneous fat and collagen of the hands and feet, giving the appearance of senility or premature aging.

Sensory recognition of the limbs and of the different parts of each limb in relation to each other; normal sensory perception of the extremities.

1. The use of all of the letters from a word to form the first letter of each of the words that may be formed from the letters of the first word; for example, using the word “dare” to form four words beginning with “d”, “a”, “r”, and “e”.
2. Using the letters of a word as a basis for forming lines of poetry or lines in a song, etc. by referring to each of the letters of the base word.

1. The art of making blocks in relief, as a substitute for wood-engraving.
2. A process of making chalk tracery in relief on metal or stone, to obtain from it an electrotype or stereotype.

In certain plants, bearing female organs at the apex of the stem.

Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) of the hands and feet.

Abnormal coldness of the hands and feet.

This is often seen in patients with schizophrenia in whom it is commonly associated with acrocyanosis.

Abnormal coldness of the extremities (fingers, hands; toes, feet).

Overgrowth of the horny layer of the skin, usually nodular configurations, of the dorsum of the fingers and toes, and occasionally on the rim of the ear and tip of the nose.

Excessive motility; an abnormal freedom of movement; also acrocinesis.

1. The language variety among a group of related varieties that is closest to the standard form of the language.
2. The most prestigious or “highest” social dialect of any language.

1. A hereditary disorder of pigmentation characterized by white patches on the extremities; depigmentation of the extremities.
2. Depigmentation (loss of color) of the extremities (fingers, toes, etc.).