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  2. ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of particulates; silico-: from Latin, silicon; volcano: from Latin, referring to volcano; coni: from ancient Greek (κόνις, kónis) which means dust-osis: from ancient Greek, suffix to indicate a medical condition

  3. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.

  4. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, ... (meaning "one life") ...

  5. Meanings of minor-planet names: 7001–8000 - Wikipedia

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    From the Latin ludibundus, meaning "merry or joyful", Ludibunda is a frolicsome, playful woman, on the same pilgrimage as 6620 Peregrina, but of strongly contrasting temper. JPL · 7081: 7082 La Serena: 1987 YL 1: La Serena, Chile, a beautiful small city near the Pacific, about 600 km north of Santiago de Chile. JPL · 7082: 7083 Kant: 1989 CL 3

  6. Cryovolcano - Wikipedia

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    A cryovolcano (sometimes informally referred to as an ice volcano) is a type of volcano that erupts gases and volatile material such as liquid water, ammonia, and hydrocarbons. The erupted material is collectively referred to as cryolava ; it originates from a reservoir of subsurface cryomagma .

  7. Wikipedia:Glossary - Wikipedia

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    A page that contains various meanings of a word, and refers to the pages where the various meanings are defined. In cases when there is a prevailing meaning of the term, disambiguation pages are named "subject (disambiguation)" when there is a primary topic. See (Wikipedia:Disambiguation) Disambiguator, disambiguation tag

  8. Tuberculosis - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, [7] is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. [1] Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs , but it can also affect other parts of the body. [ 1 ]

  9. Melioidosis - Wikipedia

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    Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by a gram-negative bacterium called Burkholderia pseudomallei. [1] Most people exposed to B. pseudomallei experience no symptoms; however, those who do experience symptoms have signs and symptoms that range from mild, such as fever and skin changes, to severe with pneumonia, abscesses, and septic shock that could cause death. [1]