13 Blood System Terminology Flashcards
bas/o
base (alkaline)
chrom/o
color
coagul/o
clotting
cyt/o
cell
eosin/o
red, dawn, rosy
erythr/o
red
hem/o, hemat/o
blood
hemoglobin/o
hemoglobin
is/o
same, equal
kary/o
nucleus
leuk/o
white
mon/o
one, single
morph/o
shape, form
myel/o
bone marrow
neutr/o
neutral (neither base or acid)
nucle/o
nucleus
phag/o
eat, swallow
poikil/o
varied, irregular (poikilocytosis- condition of irregular rbc shape)
sider/o
iron (sideropneia- deficiency in iron in serum)
spher/o
globe, round
thromb/o
clot
-apheresis
removal, carried away (plasmapheresis)
-blast
immature cell, embryonic
-cytosis
abnormal condition of cells
-emia
blood condition
-globin, -globulin
protein
-lytic
pertaining to destruction
-oid
derived from
-osis
abnormal condition
-penia
deficiency
-phage
eat, swallow
-philia
attraction for (increase in cell numbers)
-phoresis
carrying, transmission (electrophoresis)
-poiesis
formation
-stasis
stop, control