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The hematologic system is the

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Encompasses the production and transport of blood
 Blood supplies body tissues with oxygen, nutrients, and various chemicals.
 Blood also transports waste products to the appropriate waste system

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Combining form for blood

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Hem/o and hemat/o

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Liquid portion of blood is called

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Serum when the clotting factor is removed
Plasma when the clotting factors are present

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Plasma does what

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Straw-colored fluid portion of blood that transports nutrients, hormones, waste products

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Erythrocytes

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RBC
Mature red blood cells that carry oxygen

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Leukocytes

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White blood cells that fight disease

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Thrombocytes

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nucleated clotting cells

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Platelets

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anucleated clotting cells

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Anemia

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Blood condition of less-than-normal levels of red blood cells and / or hemoglobin

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Edema

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Accumulation of fluid in the intercellular space

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Hemorrhage

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Loss of blood, usually in a short time

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Hemostasis

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Controlling bleeding

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Hyperemia

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Excess blood in a part; engorgement

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Hypophosphatemia

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 Lower than normal concentration of phosphates in the blood

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Leukemia

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Elevation in number of malignant white blood cells

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Polycythemia

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Condition of many cells; clinically means excessive erythrocytes

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Lymphatic system functions as

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functions as part of the immune system, returns excess lymph to blood, and absorbs fat and fat-soluble
vitamins.

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Tonsils are

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masses of lymphatic tissue that protect the nose
and upper throat

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Combining form for tonsil

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tonsill/o

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combining form for spleen

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splen/o

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Spleen is

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mass of lymphatic tissue in cranial abdomen that filters blood

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The immune system function

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Protect the body from harmful substances

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Immun/o means

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Protected

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Antigen

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substance the body regards as foreign

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Antibody
a disease-fighting protein produced by the body in response to a specific antigen
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Anaphylaxis
Severe response to a foreign substance
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Splenomegaly
Enlargement of the spleen
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Oncology
Study of cancer
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Tumor combining form
onc/o
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Malignant
Cancerous
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benign
Nonmalignant
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Neoplasm
any abnormal new growth of tissue in which the multiplication of cells is uncontrolled and progressive
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Metastasis
pathogenic growth distant from the primary disease site  Literally “beyond control”
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Lymphoma
Neoplasm composed of lymphoid tissue
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Osteosarcoma
Malignant neoplasm composed of bone
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Innate immunity
Immunity determined by the genetic makeup of an individual
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Opportunistic
Able to cause disease when disease would normally not occur
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Titer
Quantity of a substance required to react with a given amount of another substance
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Pokilocytosis
condition of irregular cells
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ansocytosis
condition of unequal size
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Basopenia
deficiency in the number of basophils in blood
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basophilia
elevation in the number of basophils in blood
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dyscrais
abnormal condition of blood
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eosinopenia
deficiency in the number of eosinophils in the blood
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Exudate
fluid that leaks out of blood vessels into nearby tissues.
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Hemolytic
removing and destroying RBC
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hemophelia
hereditary condition of difficent blood coagulation
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Icteric serum
serum that has a yellow pigmentation that suggests hyperbilirubinemia
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left shift
common term for an alteration in the distribution of WBC in which there in increases banded neutrophils
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Adenocarcinoma
malignant growth of epithelial glandular tissue
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blastoma
neoplasm composed of immature undifferentiated cells
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hemangioma
benign neoplasm of newly formed blood vessels
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myxoma
tumor of connective tissue
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neuroblastoma
malignant neoplasm of nervous tissue
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CMI
Cell mediated immunity
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DIC
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
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EDTA
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
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H & E
Hematoxylin and eosin stain
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PMN
polymorphonuclear leukocyte
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FNA
fine needle aspiration
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LSA
lymphosarcoma
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SCC
squamous cell carcinoma

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