chol-

1. variant of chole- before a vowel:

   choline.

Example Sentences

The last known time North Korea sent senior officials to Iran was in August 2019, when a group led by Pak Chol Min, vice chair of Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament, made a weeklong visit.

From Seattle Times

A federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Arizona charges Ajak and Abraham Chol Keech, 44, of Utah, with conspiring to purchase and illegally export through a third country to South Sudan a cache of weapons in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Control Reform Act.

From Seattle Times

Mara, UCLA’s 7-foot-3 freshman, generated the noise when he blocked the shot of Oregon State’s 7-2 Chol Marial.

From Los Angeles Times

In a statement Friday, Jo Chol Su, a senior North Korean Foreign Ministry official, said the North would make all available efforts to protect its national interests in the face of threats by hostile forces.

From Seattle Times

Jo Chol Su, director general of the Department of International Organisations at Pyongyang's foreign ministry, condemned G7 foreign ministers for "slandering" the country's exercise of "self-defensive and legitimate sovereignty" in a joint statement following a meeting last week in Tokyo.

From Reuters

Words That Use chol-

What does chol- mean?

Chol- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “bile” or “gall.” It is often used in medical terms, especially in physiology.

Chol- comes from the Greek cholḗ, meaning “bile.” Bile is a yellowish-green liquid secreted by the liver. The Greek cholḗ is also source of the word cholic.

Chol- is a variant of chole-, which loses its –e– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use chole- article.

Examples of chol-

Have you ever heard the word cholagogue? It means “promoting the flow of bile.” It can seem like a daunting word, but we can use chol- to make sense of it.

So, the combining form chol- means “bile,” as we know. The second part of the word, the combining form -agogue, ultimately comes from a Greek verb meaning “lead, bring.” In medicine, -agogue is used to denote something that causes expulsion or secretion—but elsewhere, this form is used to mean “leader, bringer,” as in demagogue. That means the word cholagogue literally translates to “bile bringer.” Gross.

What are some other words that use the combining form chol-?

• cholangitis
• cholangioma
• cholangiostomy
• choline
• choluria

What are some other forms that chole– may be commonly confused with?

• chlor-
• col-
• colo-

Not every word that begins with the exact letters chol- is necessarily using the combining forming chol- to denote “bile, gall.” Consider cholla, a type of cactus with knobby outgrowths and yellow spines.

Break it down!

An angioscopy is a kind of medical imaging that shows the inside of the blood vessels. What parts of the body does a cholangioscopy specifically show?