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CNHP Ch 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |