Pain in the foot indicates that there is something wrong with either the interaction of internal structures of the foot or with the how the foot is interacting with external influences. How and when the pain occurs and the locations of the pain are the primary clues to what may be causing the pain.
a combining form meaning âsingle,â âsimple,â used in the formation of compound words: haplology. Also, especially before a vowel, hapl-. Origin of haplo-.
haploid Having half the number of chromosomes present in a normal body cell. The germ cells, the sperms and eggs (ova) are haploid, so that, on fusion, the full number is made up. From the Greek haploeides , single. haploid (of a cell nucleus) containing one of each type of chromosome. a haploid organism in which the main life stage has cell nuclei with one of each type of chromosome, written as ânâ. Such organisms (e.g. fungi, many algae) usually have a brief DIPLOID (2) phase (2n), returning to the haploid state via MEIOSIS. See ALTERNATION OF GENERATIONS. haploid,