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chapter 7
hematology
Question | Answer |
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phagocyte | cells that engulf and destryos or digest bacteria |
Angi/o | Vessel |
Hemostasis | The stopping or controlling of blood |
Agglutin/o | to clump |
Thromb/o | clot;thrombus |
Globin | Protein |
Bas/o | Base |
Lysis | Destruction;breakdown |
Blast/o | immature cell |
Eosin/o | Red; Rosey |
Erythr/o | Red |
Granul/o | Granuels; grain |
Philia | Attraction |
Thym/o | Thymus |
Myel/o | Spinal cord;bone marrow |
lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
immun/o | protection |
stasis | stopping or controlling |
aggulation | clumping together of cells |
oid | Resembling; like |
osis | condition |
is/o | equal |
Kary/o | nucleous |
penia | deficiency |
ather/o | Fat; Fatty plaque |
Poikil/o | varied; irregular |
Spher/o | sphere; round |
inter | between |
lymphaden/o | lymph glands |
Macro | large |
Pathogen | any substances that cause disease |
morph/o | shape; form |
mono | one |
Pan | all |
splen/o | spleen |
emia | blood condition |
coagul/o | clotting |
coagulation | process of blood clotting |
corpuscle | any blood cell red or white |
embolism | obstruction of blood vessels |
Anemia | deficiency in quantity and or quality of blood |
embolus | circulating blood clott |
Hemorrhage | Excessive loss of blood |
Leukemia | abnormal increase in # of immature blood wbc caused by a malignancy |
lymphadenitis | inflammation of lymph gland |
lymphadenopathy | disease of lymph gland |
lymphoma | tumore of lymph tissue |
mononucleosis | increase in the # of monocyte |
polycytethemia | increase # of RBC |
spherocytosis | abnormal condition of round or shperical shaped RBC |
Thrombus | blood clott |
Diff | WBC differential |
ESR | Erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
Hct | Hematocrit |
Hgb | hemoglobin |
dyscrasia | any abnormal condition of the blood |
thrombosis | blood clotting withing a blood vessel |
rouleaux | the abnormal stacking of rbc |
erythrocytopenia | decreased # in the amount of RBC |
poiesis | formation or production of |