combining form
or oligo-
Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek, from oligos; akin to Greek loigos ruin, havoc, Old Irish līach miserable, unhappy, Lithuanian liga sickness, Armenian ałkat poor, scant, and perhaps to Greek liazesthai to bend, recoil, sink — more at less
1. : few
Oligo chaeta
oligo gene
oligo myodian
: few things
oligo phagous
2. medicine : deficiency : insufficiency
oligo chromemia
olig uria
3. : little : small
oligo lecithal