-pagus
a combining form used in the names of severely malformed, usually nonviable, conjoined twins, with the site of attachment specified by the initial element:
thoracopagus.
-pagus suff.
conjoined twins: ectopagus.
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- -para
-para suff. a woman who has given birth to a specified number of children: multipara.
- -parous
a combining form meaning “bearing,” “producing” that specified by the initial element: oviparous; viviparous. -parous combining form giving birth to oviparous word origin from latin -parus, from parere to bring forth -parous suff. giving birth to; producing: multiparous.
- -pated
a combining form of pate: addlepated.
- -path
a combining form occurring in personal nouns corresponding to abstract nouns ending in -pathy, with the general sense “one practicing such a treatment” (osteopath) or “one suffering from such an ailment” (psychopath). -path combining form denoting a person suffering from a specified disease or disorder neuropath denoting a pract-tioner of a particular method of treatment […]
- -pathia
an obsolete variant of -pathy: psychopathia.