Endo - As A Scientific Prefix

As A Scientific Prefix

Endo, a medical prefix meaning "within, inner, absorbing, or containing"

  • Endoscope, an implement used in minimally invasive surgery
  • Endometriosis, a disease that relates to a woman's menstrual cycle
  • Endo-exo isomerism, in chemistry, a specific stereochemical relationship in molecular geometry
  • Endomorphism, in mathematics, a homomorphism from a mathematical object to itself
  • Endogenous, meaning "proceeding from within" In Biology Endogenous substances are those that originate from within an organism, tissue, or cell
  • For other possible words, see All pages beginning with "Endo"

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