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medical terminology chapter 9
Question | Answer |
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aden/o | gland |
agglutin/o | clumping, gluing |
bas/o | base |
blast/o | embryonic cell |
chrom/o | color |
eosin/o | dawn (rose color) |
erythr/o | red |
granul/o | granule |
hem/o | blood |
hemat/o | blood |
immun/o | immune, immunity, safe |
kary/o | nucleas |
nucle/o | nucleas |
leuk/o | white |
lymphaden/o | lymph gland |
lymph/o | lymph |
lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
morph/o | form, shape, structure |
myel/o | bone marraw, spinal cord |
neutr/o | neutral, neither |
phag/o | swallowing |
pla/o | formation |
poikil/o | varied, irregular |
reticul/o | net, mesh |
sider/o | iron |
ser/o | serum |
splen/o | spleen |
thromb/o | blood clot |
thym/o | thymus gland |
xen/o | foriegn, strange |
-blast | embronic cell |
-emia | blood condition |
-globin | protien |
-graft | transplantation |
-osis | abnormal condition; increase |
-penia | decrease, deficiency |
-phil | attraction for |
-phoresis | carrying, transmission |
-phylaxis | protection |
-poiesis | formation, production |
-stasis | standing still |
a- | without |
allo- | other, differing from the normal |
aniso- | unequal |
iso- | same, equal |
macro- | large |
micro- | small |
mono- | one |
poly- | many, much |
AB, ab | abortion, antibodies |
ABO | blood groups A, B, AB, and O |
ALL | acute lymphocytic leukemia |
AML | acute myelogenous |
APTT | activated partial thromboplastin time |
baso | basophil |
CBC | complete blood count |
CLL | chronic lymphocytic luekemia |
CML | chronic myelogenous luekemia |
diff | differential count (white blood cells) |
EBV | epstein-barr virus |
eos | eosinophil |
ESR, sed rate | erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
Hb, Hgb | hemoglobin |
HBT, Hct | hematocrit |
HDN | hemolytic disease of the newborn |
Igs | immunoglobulins |
ITP | idiopathic thromocytopenia purpura |
I.V., IV | intraveneous |
lymphos | lymphocytes |
MCH | mean corpuscular hempglobin |
MCHC | mean cell volume |
mL, ml | mililiters |
PA | posteroanterior; pernicious anamia |
PCV | packed cell volume |
poly, PMN, PMNL | polymorphonuclear luekocyte |
PT | prothrombin time, physical therapy |
PTT | partial thromboplastin time |
RBC, rbc | red blood cell, red blood count |
segs | segmented neutrophils |
SLE | systemic lupus erythematosus |
WBC,wbc | white blood cells,white blood count |