What is the medical terminology combining form meaning like or resembling?

Answer 1

The word part -oid, -ode and -ose can both be used for "resembles". The word part -ine and -ary can both mean "like". There's probably a few others but these are off the top of my head. -oid as in android, etc. is probably the one you want. Here's some more information about this word part that you may find helpful.

-eido-, -eid-, ido-, -id- -odes, -oid, -od-, -ode, -odiumfrom Gr. eidos, shape, means "having a form, figure, shape, or image; resembles; looks like". [kaleidoscope, lit. pretty image viewing instrument, fig. an optical toy for viewing symmetrical patterns created by broken glass or other objects, idol, lit. a form or image that can be seen, fig. an image of a divinity, geode, lit. earthlike, fig. a nodule of stone filled with crystals that looks like the Earth with it's layers of mantle, eidetic, lit. of images, fig. superb visual recall of images, iridescence, lit. becoming like a rainbow's color, fig. many colored appearance like a rainbow, mastodon, lit. resembling breast teeth, fig. an extinct elephant like animal with breast like projections on its molar teeth, adenoid, lit. looks like a gland, anideus, lit. without shape, anthropoid, lit. resembling man, apeidosis, lit. away from the form state, eidoptometery, lit. form vision measuring, plasmodium, lit. looks like something formed]

Answer 2

The medical terminology combining form that means "like or resembling" is "-oid." This combining form is commonly used in medical terminology to describe something that is similar in appearance or function to another structure.