ichthyo-, ichthy-, -ichth- +

(Greek: fish)

Many fishes are arranged to form a big fish representing ichthyology.


ichthyopoly
The selling of fish.
Ichthyopsida
A grand division of the Vertebrata, including the Amphibia and Fishes.
ichthyopterygia
In paleontology, a proposed extinct subclass of diapsid marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurs and some related forms.
ichthyornis
A prehistoric toothed bird, similar to a gull, that lived during the Cretaceous period; literally, a “fish-bird”.
ichthyornithiformes
In paleontology, an order of early flying birds in the extinct superorder Odontognathae; Cretaceous.
ichthyosarcotoxin
A poison found in the muscles or flesh of certain fish.
ichthyosarcotoxism
A poisoning that results from the ingestion of the flesh of poisonous fish, in contrast with ordinary bacterial food poisoning that might result from the ingesting (eating) of nonpoisonous fish contaminated by bacteria.
Ichthyosaur
An extinct fishlike marine reptile of the order Ichthyosauria of the Triassic to the Cretaceous periods.
Ichthyosauria
An order of highly specialized marine reptiles in the subclass Diapsida, characterized by an elongated snout and a fish-shaped body, and generally very fishlike; some authorities group them in a separate subclass, Ichthyopterygia, because of their great divergence from the basic reptilian pattern; Middle Triassic to Cretaceous.
Ichthyosaurian
A description of a prehistoric reptile with a long snout and paddle-shaped limbs that lived in the sea during the Mesozoic era.
Ichthyosaurus, Ichthyosaurous
A “fish reptile” which was a dolphin-like reptile believed to have been in what is now England, Germany, Greenland, and Alberta, Canada during the Early Jurassic to the early Cretaceous periods. It was not a dinosaur but another type of extinct reptile.
ichthyosis, ichthyotic, ichthyotoxic
1. A keratinization disorder identified by dryness and noninflammatory fishskin-like scaling of the skin.
2. A disease that causes the skin to become dry, thick, and scaly.
ichthyotomist
A dissector or anatomist of fishes.
ichthyotomy
The dissection of fish.
ichthyotoxicology
The study of natural toxins produced by fish, their cause, detection, and effects, and the treatment of conditions produced by them.

Other "fish" units: pisci-, Iktho Fish Story.


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