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medical terminology chapter 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |