Chapter 6 - Haematology Flashcards
Agglutin/o
Clumping, gluing, sticking together
Baso/o
Base
Blast/o
Embryonic, developing cell
Chrom/o
Chromat/o
Colour
Coagul/o
Clotting
Cyt/o
Cell
Embol/o
Embolism, plug
Eosin/o
Red, dawn, rosy
Erythr/o
Red
Granul/o
Granules
Haem/o
Blood
Haemat/o
Blood
Haemoglobin/o
Haemoglobin
Home/o
Same, alike
Is/o
Same, equal
Kary/o
Nucleus
Leuc/o
Leuk/o
White
Leuk/o (only for Leukaemia)
Morph/o
Shape, form
Myel/o
Bone marrow, spinal cord
Neutr/o
Neutral
Nucle/o
Nucleus
Phag/o
Eat, swallow
Phleb/o
Vein
Poikil/o
Varied, irregular
Reticul/o
Net like
Sangui/o
Blood
Sider/o
Iron
Spher/o
Globe, round
Splen/o
Spleen
Thromb/o
Clot
Thym/o
Thymus gland
Aniso-
Unequal, asymmetrical, dissimilar
Macro-
Large
Micro-
Small
Mono-
One, single
Pan-
All, entire
Poly-
Many
Trans-
Across, through, over
-aemia
Condition of blood
-apheresis
Removal, carry away
-blast
Embryonic or developing cell
-cyte
Cell
-cytosis
Abnormal condition of cells
-globin
Protein
-globulin
Protein
-lytic
Pertaining to destruction
-oid
Resembling, derived from
-osis
Abnormal condition
-penia
Deficiency
- phage
- phagia
Eat, swallow
- phil
- philia
Affinity or attraction for
-poiesis
Formation, production of
- rrhage
- rrhagia
Bursting forth, excessive discharge or flow
-stasis
Stop, control