Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Bertolini said Wednesday the Affordable Care Act is fatally flawed and that he believes more insurers will follow Humana Inc. and quit public health exchanges entirely. It is in a death spiral, he said of Obamacare in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
syn-. 1. a prefix occurring in loanwords from Greek, having the same function as co- (synthesis; synoptic); used, with the meaning âwith,â âtogether,â in the formation of compound words (synsepalous) or âsyntheticâ in such compounds (syngas). Also, sy-, syl-, sym-, sys-. Origin of syn-.
synteny. [sinâ²tÉnÄ]. Etymology: Gk, syn + taina, ribbon. (in genetics) the presence on the same chromosome of two or more genes that may or may not be transmitted as a linkage group but that appear to be able to undergo independent assortment during meiosis.