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medical terminology chapter 9

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