OLIGO- Definition & Meaning

oligo-

especially before a vowel, olig-

a combining form meaning “few,” “little,” used in the formation of compound words.
oligopoly.

oligo-

combining form

indicating a few or little
oligopoly

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of oligo-¹

From Greek, combining form of �Ǳ�í��ǲ� “little, small, few”

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of oligo-¹

from Greek �Ǳ�í��ǲ� little, few

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Example Sentences

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“But instead of using an antisense oligo to force an exon that was being ignored to be included, we were using an antisense oligo to shut down an exon that was getting in the way.”

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That’s because foods like these contain hard-to-digest carbohydrates called fermentable oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols.

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Other possible triggers for gastric difficulties could be Fodmaps, or Fermentable, Oligo-, Di- and Mono-saccharides and Polyols.

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The free TdT is washed away, and the oligo is ready for the next base to be added.

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Most new nucleotides attach to the growing oligo in 10 to 20 seconds, Palluk, Arlow, Keasling, and their colleagues report today in Nature Biotechnology.

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What does oligo- mean?

Oligo- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “few; little.” It is occasionally used in scientific terms, especially in biology.Oligo- comes from Greek �Ǳ�í��ǲ�, meaning "little, small, few." The Latin equivalent of �Ǳ�í��ǲ� is paucus “few, little, small (number of),” which is the source of English terms such as paucity. To learn more, check out our entry on paucity.What are variants of oligo-?When combined with words or word elements that begin with a vowel, oligo- becomes olig-, as in oligemia.

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