acro-, acr- +

1. The spore at the apex of a sporophore.
2. A spore produced at the apex of a hypha or cellular filament forming the structural element of fungi; a basidiospore.

Painful inflammation of the bones of the hands and feet.

1. A number of lines of writing, especially a poem or word puzzle, in which particular letters, e.g., the first, in each line spell a word or phrase.
2. A short poem (or other composition) in which the initial letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word, phrase, or sentence. Sometimes the last or middle letters of the lines, or all of them, are similarly arranged to spell words, etc., whence a distinction of single, double, or triple acrostics.
3. A verse or arrangement of words in which certain letters in each line; such as, the first or last, when taken in order spell out a word, motto, etc.
4. A Hebrew poem in which the consecutive lines or verses begin with the successive letters of the alphabet.

Situated in the highest rank or row; referring to certain bristles on the mesonotum of muscoid flies.

Resembling the beginnings of lines of poetry.

The method of acrostics; acrostichal arrangement or character.

A paraphilia (sexual deviation or sexual perversion) in which sexual arousal is dependent on the sexual partner having an amputated stump.

In genetics, a pairing activity of homologous chromosomes at meiosis that involves the terminal portions of the chromosomes.

Among Ecclesiastical writers, the end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto to be sung by the people.

1. The pinnacles or other ornaments standing in ranges on the horizontal coping or parapets of a building.
2. On classical buildings, one of the angles of a pediment; also, a statue or other ornament placed at one of these; especially, at the apex.

1. Amputation of the extremities.
2. The act of cutting off the extreme parts of the body, when putrefied, with a saw.

1. Pertaining to the tips or outermost parts.
2. The outermost points, as tips of digits, end of the nose, ears, and tail.

1. Pertaining to the absence or weakness of the pulse.
2. Pertaining to the surface or outside of certain diseases.

Absence or imperceptibility of the pulse.

A paraphilia in which sexual arousal is dependent on the sexual partner having an amputation stump.

Paraphilia is characterized by sexual arousal to unconventional stimuli that are not considered to be part of normal sexual arousal patterns. It is also defined as a need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus to achieve sexual arousal or orgasm.