L

Question 1

Lipid or Lipo

Answer 1

Refers to fats

Question 2

Lumen

Answer 2

Cavity or channel within a tube.

For example a blood vessel, intestines

Question 3

Lamina

Answer 3

Layer

Eg-lamina propria

Question 4

Lacteal

Answer 4

The lymphatic vessel of the small intestine which absorbs digested fats

Question 5

Lactin

Answer 5

Lactation

Question 6

Lysis/Lyso/lytic

Answer 6

Breakdown/destruction/split

Lysozymes – breakdown, bacterial cell walls and are found in body fluid, such as tears and saliva.

Lysosomes are organelles found in most anal cells that contain enzymes used to breakdown and recycle various molecules within the cell. They are the recycling centres of the cell.

Glycolysis - To break down glucose

Cytolysis - type of destruction of microbes in the immune system

Question 7

Laryng

Answer 7

Related to the larynx.

Laryngitis

Question 8

Leuko

Answer 8

White

Question 9

Lactate

Answer 9

Milk secretion

Question 10

Lactiferous

Answer 10

Conveying milk

Question 11

Luteum

Answer 11

Yellow

Corpus luteum – yellow mass

Question 12

LH

Answer 12

Luteinising hormone

Question 13

Lysozymes

Answer 13

Enzymes of breakdown, bacterial cell walls

Question 14

Lysozymes

Answer 14

Breaks down bacterial cell walls causing them to rupture and die

Found in bodily fluids, such as saliva and tears and mucus

Question 15

Lacrimal

Answer 15

Refers to tears

Lacrimal apparatus of the eye produces tears