duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation +

(Latin: to lead, leading; bringing; to take; to draw along or out)


irreducible
1. Not reducible; incapable of being reduced or of being diminished or simplified further: "He produced the irreducible minimum."
2. Incapable of being brought into a different condition or form.
3. Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount.
irreducibly
1. Not able to be reduced or simplified.
2. Incapable of being made smaller or simpler.
irreproducibility
That which is impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount.
lateroduction
A drawing to one side; denoting a movement of a limb or turning of the eyeball away form the midline.
levoduction
Turning of one eye to the left; exduction (turning out of line) of the left eye or euduction (normal turning) of the right eye.
microductectomy
A very small, minor surgery in which a single duct is removed from the breast.

Usually it's done in the case of a ductal papilloma, most of which are benign, but which can occasionally be malignant.

The surgery involves a very small incision, often made where it won't show, and removal of very little tissue.

misconduct
1. Bad or dishonest management by people who are supposed to act on another's behalf.
2. An activity that transgresses moral or civil law; wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
3. To behave badly, misbehave: "The children misbehaved all morning".
4. To manage badly or incompetently: "The funds were mismanaged resulting in a decline in the company's profits."
oleoduct
A duct or channel for the conveyance of oil from an oil-well or oil-field.
oviducal
Of or pertaining to oviducts; as, oviducal glands.

Oviducts are tubular tracts in female animals through which eggs are discharged either to the exterior or, in mammals, a reference to the uterus.

oviduct
Either of a pair of tubes in the body conducting the eggs from the ovary to the uterus.
oviductal, oviducal
1. A reference to the tube through which the ova (eggs) pass from the ovary to the uterus or to the outside.
2. Relating to the tube that serves exclusively, or especially, for the passage of eggs from an ovary.
oviductitis
Inflammation of the oviduct.
periaqueductal
Located around the cerebral aqueduct (channel in the brain which connects the third ventricle to the fourth ventricle); usually in reference to periaqueductal grey (region of grey matter in the brain), or some other part of the anatomy.
photoconductivity, photoconduction
1. Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.
2. An effect observed in many substances, in which the electrical conductivity is increased when the substance is exposed to electromagnetic radiation, usually in the visible region of the light spectrum.
photoinduced
Initiated through exposure to light.

Cross references of word families related to "bear, carry, bring": -fer; ger-; later-, -lation; phoro-; port-.


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