Where does “intramedullary” come from?

Intramedullary is an English compound formed from Latin intra meaning within and Latin medulla meaning marrow, with the adjectival suffix -alis and -arius.

intramedullary (English): Inside the medulla

Definitions

  1. Inside the medulla

Ancestry of “intramedullary”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishintra-a prefix signifying inside, within, interior,...
2Latinintrawithin; inside; during; less than
3Latininterus—
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énterosinside, within
5Proto-Indo-European-terosContrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -teros →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁énteros →Every word from Latin interus →