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Blue Module
Blue Terminology
Question | Answer |
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aden/o | gland |
agglutin/o | clumping, gluing |
bas/o | base (alkaline) |
blast/o | embryonic cell |
chromat/o chrom/o | colour |
cyt/o | cell |
electr/o | electricity |
eosin/o | dawn (rose-coloured) |
erythema/o erythemat/o erythr/o rube/o | red |
gen/o | forming, producing, origin |
granul/o | granule |
hem/o hemat/o | blood |
immun/o | immune, immunity, safe |
kary/o nucle/o | nucleus |
leuk/o | white |
lymph/o | lymph |
lymphaden/o | lumph gland (node) |
lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
micr/o | small |
morph/o | form, shape, structure |
mut/a | genetic change |
myel/o | bone marrow, spinal cord |
neutr/o | neutral, neither |
phag/o | swallowing, eating |
phleb/o | vein |
phil/o | attraction for |
plas/o | formation, growth |
poikil/o | varied, irregular |
reticul/o | net, mesh |
ser/o | serum |
sider/o | iron |
splen/o | spleen |
thromb/o | blood clot |
thym/o | thymus gland |
tox/o toxic/o | poison |
vol/o | volume |
xen/o | foreign, strange |
-ar -ic -ine -tic | pertaining to |
-ation | process (of) |
-blast | embryonic cell |
-cyte | cell |
-edema | swelling |
-emia | blood condition |
-gen -genesis | forming, producing, origin |
-globin | protein |
-graft | transplantation |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | separation, destruction, loosening |
-oid | resembling |
-oma | tumor |
-osis | abnormal condition |
-pathy | disease |
-penia | decrease dificiency |
-phage -phagia | swallowing, eating |
-phil -philia | attraction for |
-phobia | fear |
-phoresis | carrying, transmission |
-phylaxis | protection |
-plasia -plasm | formation, growth |
-poiesis | formation, production |
-rrhagia | bursting forth (of) |
-stasis | standing still |
-toxic | pertaining to poison |
a- an- | not, without |
allo- | other, differing from the normal |
ana- | against, up, back |
aniso- | unequal, dissimilar |
auto- | self, own |
hypo- | under, below, deficient |
im- | not |
iso- | same, equal |
macro- | large |
micro- | small |
mono- | one |
poly- | many, much |
A,B, AB, O | blood types in ABO blood group |
AB, Ab, ab | antibody, abortion |
AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
ALL | acute lymphocytic leukemia |
AML | acute myelogenous leukemia |
APC | antigen-presenting cell |
APTT | activated partial thromboplastin time |
baso | basophil (type of white blood cell) |
BMT | bone marrow transplant |
CBC | complete blood count |
CLL | chronic lymphocytic leukemia |
CML | chronic myelogenous leukemia |
DIC | disseminated intravascular coagulation |
diff | differential count (white blood cells) |