poly- +
(Greek: many, much; too many, too much, excessive; abnormal)
Don’t confuse this poly- with another -poly which means “to sell”.
polytocia, polytokia
1. Birth of more than one child at one time.
2. Bearing several young at one time or, in botany, continuing to bear fruit for many years.
polytokous, polytocous
1. Having many offspring per brood.
2. Producing fruit many times during a plant's life cycle.
polytrichia, polytrichous, polytrichosis
1. Very hairy; thickly covered with hair; especially in comparison with other people of the same race and sex.
2. Excessive hairiness.
3. An excessive growth of the hair.
polytrophic
1. A reference to obtaining nourishment from a variety of organic material; such as, certain bacteria.
2. Exhibiting an attraction, trophism, for multiple organs; usually used for a virus which affects multiple organ systems.
polytrophy
1. Feeding on a variety of different food substances or food species.
2. In pathology, marked by or pertaining to excessive nutrition.
polyunsaturated
Relating to long-chain carbon compounds; especially, fats, having many unsaturated bonds.
polyuria
Excessive urination, as in some diseases.
polyuric
A descriptive term for the excretion of an abnormally large quantity of urine.
polyxeny, polyxenous
1. A parasite associated with many hosts during its life-cycle.
2. A parasite that is not host specific; also, pleioxeny.
polyzoan
A reference to minute water animals that form branching, mosslike colonies, and reproduce by budding.
polyzoic
A description of tapeworms in which the body is typically divided into proglottids; as opposed to monozoic forms.
psychogenic nocturnal polydipsia syndrome
Emotionally induced excessive water drinking at night.
psychogenic polydipsia
Excessive fluid consumption resulting from a disorder of the personality, without any demonstrable organic lesion (pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of the function of a body part).
stethopolyscope, stethophone
An instrument whereby several people can listen to the sounds transmitted through a stethoscope.
synpolydactyly
The hereditary association of polydactyly (extra fingers or toes) and syndactyly (webbed fingers or toes).
Related topics utilizing this poly- prefix: Polysemy and Polysemous and Polygamy Sections.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing":
copi-;
exuber-;
hyper-;
multi-;
opulen-;
ple-;
pleio-;
plethor-;
super-;
total-;
ultra-;
undu-.
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