Medical Word Elements Blood, Lymph and Immune System Flashcards
1
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aden/o
A
Gland
2
Q
Agglutin/o
A
Clumping
Gluing
3
Q
Bas/o
A
Base
alkaline
4
Q
Blast/o
A
Embryonic cell
5
Q
Chrom/o
A
Color
6
Q
Eosin/o
A
Dawn (rose-colored)
7
Q
Erythr/o
A
Red
8
Q
Granul/o
A
Granule
9
Q
Hem/o
Hemat/o
A
Blood
10
Q
Immun/o
A
Immune
Immunity, safe
11
Q
Kary/o
Nucle/o
A
Nucleus
12
Q
Leuk/o
A
White
13
Q
Lymphaden/o
A
Lymph Gland
14
Q
Lymph/o
A
Lymph
15
Q
Lymphangi/o
A
Lymph Vessel
16
Q
Morph/o
A
Form
Shape
Structure
17
Q
Myel/o
A
Bone marrow
Spinal cord
18
Q
Neutr/o
A
Neutral, neither
19
Q
Phag/o
A
Swallowing
Eating
20
Q
Plas/o
A
Formation
growth
21
Q
Poikil/o
A
Varied
Irregular
22
Q
Reticul/o
A
Net
Mesh
23
Q
Ser/o
A
Serum
24
Q
Sider/o
A
Iron
25
Splen/o
Spleen
26
Thromb/o
Blood Clot
27
Thym/o
Thymus Gland
28
Xen/o
Foreign
| Strange
29
-blast
Embryonic cell
30
-emia
Blood condition
31
-globin
Protein
32
-graft
transplantation
33
-osis
Abnormal condition
| increase
34
-penia
Decrease
| Deficiency
35
-phil
Attraction for
36
-phoresis
Carrying
| Transmission
37
-phylaxis
Protection
38
-poiesis
Formation
| Production
39
-stasis
standing still
40
a-
without, not
41
allo-
other, different from the normal
42
aniso-
Unequal
| Dissimilar
43
Iso-
Same
| Equal
44
Macro-
Large
45
Micro-
Small
46
Mono-
One
47
Poly-
Many, much