What it means
The combining form for big. As the ending -megaly it means an enlarged organ: cardiomegaly is an enlarged heart, hepatomegaly an enlarged liver, splenomegaly an enlarged spleenspleenAn organ in the upper left abdomen that filters the blood and helps fight infection.splen/o spleenFull entry . At the start of a word it gives megacolon (a widened colon) and megaloblast (a large, immature red cell seen in some anemias).
At a glance
| Also written | -megaly, megalo- |
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