grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia +
(Greek: to scratch; to write, to record, to draw, to describe; that which is written or described)
As indicated at the bottom of this page, there are at least 1,140 graphic word groups in this unit. Such an extensive listing is provided to show how significant the grapho- element is to the English language.
mimeography
1. An autographic stencil copying and processing procedure invented by Edison or the use of a machine that prints copies onto paper from an inked stencil rotated on a cylinder across the pages.
2. Literally: Greek
mimeomai, “I imitate” + graph, “write”.
A machine for reproducing copies of written, drawn, or typewritten pages by means of a stencil placed around a drum containing ink.
mimographer
A writer of mimes.
mogigraphy, mogigraphia, mogigraphic
1. Physical difficulty in writing which may be a result of clumsiness of the fingers.
2. Difficult or cramped writing; writer’s cramp.
"Tennis players have their elbows, athletes have their feet, so what do writers get? They get their cramps. Mogigraphia is a fancy name for a writer's cramp.
Advanced writers go for a block. For the ultimate, we recommend carpal tunnel syndrome. A synonym of mogigraphia is graphospasm."
—Anu Garg, Wordsmith, wsmith@wordsmith.org
monograph
1. A scholarly article, paper, or book on a single topic.
2. A highly detailed and thoroughly documented study, or paper, written about a limited area of a subject or field of inquiry: "She wrote scholarly monographs about the etymology of English words."
3. An account of a single thing, or class of things; such as, of a species of organism.
monographic
1. A reference to a written work that deals with a subject systematically, and usually extensively, on some special subject in other areas of knowledge.
2. A scholarly book or a written presentation on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
morphographic, morphographical
A reference to the scientific description of forms or shapes.
morphography
1. The description of forms, shapes, and structures of animals and plants.
2. Artistic, or descriptive, presentations of forms.
museographer, museographist
Someone who systematically describes the contents of museums.
museography, museographic, museoographical
The systematic description of the contents of museums.
musicography, musicographic, musicographical
The science or art of writing music; musical notation.
myelographic
In medicine, a reference to a radiography of the spinal chord after injection of a contrast medium (often air) into the subarachnoid space.
myelography
Radiography of the spinal cord to detect possible lesions after an injection of a contrast medium into the subarachnoid space (situated beneath the middle of the three membrane arachnoids that cover the brain and spinal cord).
The arachnoid is named for its delicate, spider-web-like filaments that extend from its under surface through the cerebrospinal fluid in the subarachnoid space to the pia mater or the innermost membrane surrounding the central nervous system.
myograph
1. An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.
2. An instrument for recording muscular contractions.
myographer, myographist
In medicine, someone who is skilled in myography or the study of muscular contractions.
myography
1. In medicine, a description of muscles; the descriptive science of muscles.
2. The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of a registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.
Related "writing" word units:
glypto-;
gram-;
scrib-, script-.