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Blood, Lymphatic and
Term | Definition |
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Adenoid/o | adenoids |
Agglutin/o | clumping; sticking together |
Angi/o | vessels (blood) |
Arteri/o | artery |
Cyt/o | cell |
Erythr/o | red |
Fung/o | fungus |
Hem/a, Hem/o, Hemat/o | blood |
Iatr/o | physician; treatment |
Immun/o | immune; protection |
Kary/o | nucleus |
Leuk/o | white |
Log/o | study |
Ly/o | breakdown; dissolve; loosen |
Lymph/o, Lymphat/o | lymph |
Lyphaden/o | lymph node |
Lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
Morph/o | shape; form |
Myel/o | bone marrow; spinal cord |
Nucle/o | nucleus |
Path/o | disease |
Phleb/o | vein |
Ser/o | serum; serous |
Splen/o | spleen |
Thromb/o | clot |
Thym/o | thymus |
Tonsill/o | tonsils |
Tox/o | poison |
Ven/I, Ven/o | vein |
Vir/o | virus |
A-, an- | not; without |
Anti- | against |
Auto- | self |
Con- | together, with |
En- | in, within |
Epi- | on; over; upon |
Macro- | large |
Mega- | large |
Meta- | change; beyond |
Mono- | one, single |
Neo- | new |
–al, -ar, -ic, -ical, -tic | pertaining to |
–ation | process; condition |
–blast | developing cell |
–crit | to seperate |
–cyte | cell |
–e | (noun suffix with no meaning) |
–ectomy | surgical removal; excision |
–emia | blood condition |
–emic | pertaining to blood condition |
–fusion | to come together, to pour |
–gen | substance that produces |
–globulin | proteins |
–ia | condition |
–in, -ine | chemical; chemical compound; substance |
–itis | inflammation |
–logist | specialist |
–logy | study of |
–lysis | breakdown; seperation; loosening |
–lytic | pertaining to breakdown or destruction |
–megaly | enlargement |
–oma | tumor; mass |
–osis | abnormal condition |
–penia | deficiency |
–phage | eat; swallow |
–pheresis | removal |
–phil, -philia | love, attraction for |
–phoresis, | carrying, transmission |
–plasm | formation; structure |
–plastic | pertaining to formation |
–plasty | surgical repair |
–poiesis | formation |
–rrhage | rupture; bursting forth (of blood) |
–sis | state; condition |
–stasis | stoppage of flow |
–suppression | to stop |
–therapy | treatment |
–tomy | process of cutting, incision |
Phag/o | eat; swallow; engulf |
Poly- | many, much |
Pro- | before; forward |
Trans- | across |