normo-

1. a combining form with the meaning “normal, close to the norm,” used in the formation of compound words:

   normocyte.

Word History and Origins

Origin of normo-¹

norm or norm(al) + -o-

Example Sentences

A new breed of alternative comedians, most of whom have long since become contented members of the cultural establishment, made it obligatory to do routines focused on the people Ben Elton called "Thatch" and "Normo Tebbs".

From The Guardian

He does not regard as distinguishing characteristics, the size and hæmoglobin content of the cells—although as we have described above, these are in general different in normo- and megaloblasts—for these two properties undergo such great variations as to increase considerably under certain circumstances the difficulty of diagnosis of individual cells.

From Project Gutenberg

And similarly more recent authors, H. F. Müller, C. S. Engel, Pappenheim and others, have adhered to the division of hæmatoblasts into normo- and megaloblasts.

From Project Gutenberg

In Epstein's case of metastatic carcinoma of the bone-marrow, there was found a considerable anæmia, with numerous nucleated red blood corpuscles both of the normo- and megaloblastic type; their nuclei presented the strangest shapes, due not merely to typical nuclear division, but also to nuclear degeneration.

From Project Gutenberg

One day, said Normo to his fool,—'Go, Willi, to yonder tree, and wait there till I come,' 'Your Majesty, I will,' said Willi, bowing beneath his jingling bells; 'but I presume your Majesty has no objections to my walking on my hands:—I am free, I hope.'

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