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Blood, Lymphatic
Blood, Lymphatic and Immune System
Adenoid/o | adenoids |
Agglutin/o | clumping; sticking; together |
Angi/o | vessel (blood) |
Cyt/o | cell |
Erythr/o | red |
Fung/o | fungus |
Hem/, hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
Iatr/o | physician; treatment |
Immun/o | immune |
Kary/o | nucleus |
Leuk/o | white |
Log/o | study |
Ly/o | break down; dissolve; loosen |
Lymph/o, Lymphat/o | lymph |
Lymphaden/o | lymph node |
Lymphangi/o | lymphatic vessel |
morph/o | shpe; form |
myel/o | bone marrow; spinal cord |
nucle/o | nucleus |
path/o | disease |
phag/o | eat; swallow; engulf |
phleb/o | vein |
ser/o | serum |
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 |
poly- | many; much |
pro- | before; forward |
trans- | across |
-al, -ar, -ic, -ical, -tic | Pertaining to |
-ation | process; condition |
-blast | developing cell |
-crit | to separate |
-cyte | cell |
-e | noun (suffix with no meaning) |
-ectomy | surgical removal; excision |
-emia | blood condition |
-emic | pertaining to blood condition |
-fusion | to pour; to come together |
-gen | substance that produces |
-globulin | protein |
-ia | condition |
-in, -ine | chemical; chemical compound; substance |
-itis | inflammation |
-logist | specialist |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | breakdown; separation |
-lytic | pertaining to breakdown or separation |
-megaly | enlargement |
-oma | tumor; mass |
-penia | deficiency |
-phage | eat; swallow |
-pheresis | removal |
-phil, -philia | love; attraction for |
-poiesis | transmission; carrying |
-plasm | to pour; to come together |
-plastic | pertaining to formation |
-plasty | surgical repair |
-poresis | formation |
-rrhage | rupture; bursting forth (of blood) |
-sis | state; condition |
-stasis | stoppage of flow |
-suppression | to stop |
-therapy | treatment |
-tomy | process of cutting; incision |