Chapter 5 Word parts Flashcards
Adenoid/o
Adenoids
Agglutin/o
clumping,sticking together
angi/o
vessel (blood)
arteri/o
artery
erythr/o
red
fungo/o
fungus
hem/a, hem/o, hemat/o
blood
iatr/o
physician, treatment
immun/o
immune;protection
kary/o
nucleus
luek/o
white
ly/o
break down;dissolve;loosen
lymph/o, lymphat/o
lymph
lymphaden/o
lymph node
lymphangi/o
lymphatic vessel
morph/o
shape;form
myel/o
bone marrow, spinal cord
phag/o
eat;swallow;engulf
phleb/o
vein
ser/o
serum, serbus
splen/o
spleen
thromb/o
clot
thym/o
thymus
tox/o
poison
vir/o
virus
auto
self
con
together; with
epi
on,over,upon
macro
large
meta
change, beyond
mono
one, single
neo
new
poly
many, much
pro
before, forward
trans
across
-ation
process, condition
-blast
developing cell
-crit
to seperate
-ectomy
surgical removal, excision
-emic
pertaining to blood condition
-fusion
to pour, to come together
-gen
substance that produces
-globulin
protein
-lytic
pertaining to break down or destruction
-megaly
enlargement
-phage
eat, swallow
-pheresis
removal
-phoresis
transmission; carrying
-plasty
surgical repair
-rrhage
rupture, bursting fourth (of blood)