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CNHP Ch 8
Question | Answer |
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blood | transports oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to the body cells and carries wastes and co2 away from cells |
blast/9 | germ or bud |
chrom/o | color |
chromat/o | color |
chyl/o | juice |
cyt/o | cell |
hem/o | blood |
hemat/o | blood |
immun/o | immune, resistant |
lymph/o | clear fluid |
morph/o | form |
myel/o | bone marrow or spinal cord |
phay/o | eat or swallow |
plas/o | formations |
reticul/o | a net |
splen/o | spleen |
thromb/o | clot |
thym/o | thymus |
hemoglobin | protein iron compound in RBC's |
platelets | cell fragments essential for blood clotting |
immunity | process of disease protection induced by exposure to an antigen |
antigen | substance that, when introduced into the body, causes the formation of antibodies, against it |
antibody | substance produced by the body that destroys or inactivates an antigen that has entered the body |
active immunity | long lasting immunity that results from stimulating the body to produce its own antibodies |
natural immunity | developed in response to an infection |
artificial immunity | developed in response to the administration of a vaccine |
passive immunity | short-lasting immunity that results from foreign antibodies that are conveyed naturally through the placentae to a fetus or artificially by injection of a serum containing antibodies. |
AIDS | acquired human immunodeficiency virus |
ALT | alanine aminotransferase (enzyme) |
AST | aspartate aminotransferase (enzyme) |
BMP | basic metabolic panel |
BUN | blood urea nitrogen |
CBC | complete blood count |
CD | cluster differentiation |
CMP | comprehensive metabolic panel |
CO2 | carbon dioxide |
CT | computed tomography |