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BLI Word Parts/abv
blood, lymphatic, and immune systems word parts + abbreviations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adenoid/o | adenoids |
| agglutin/o | clumping; sticking together |
| angi/o | vessel (blood) |
| arteri/o | artery |
| cyt/o | cell |
| erythr/o | red |
| fung/o | fungus |
| hem/a, hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
| iatr/o | physician; treatment |
| immun/o | immunity; protection |
| kary/o | nucleus |
| leuk/o | white |
| log/o | study |
| ly/o | break down; dissolve; loosen |
| lymph/o, lymphat/o | lymph |
| lymphaden/o | lymph node |
| lymphangi/o | lymphatic vessel |
| morph/o | shape; form |
| myel/o | bone marrow; spinal cord |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| path/o | disease |
| phag/o | eat; swallow; engulf |
| phleb/o | vein |
| ser/o | serum; serous |
| splen/o | spleen |
| thromb/o | clot |
| thym/o | thymus |
| tonsill/o | tonsils |
| tox/o | poison |
| ven/i, ven/o | vein |
| vir/o | virus |
| macro- | large |
| mega- | large |
| pro- | before; forward |
| -ation | process; condition |
| -blast | developing cell |
| -crit | to separate |
| -cyte | cell |
| -e | no meaning |
| -emic | pertaining to blood condition |
| -fusion | to pour; to come together |
| -gen | substance that produces |
| -globulin | protein |
| -in, -ine | chemical; chemical composition; substance |
| -lytic | pertaining to breakdown or destruction |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -phag | eat; swallow |
| -peresis | removal |
| -phoresis | transmission; carrying |
| -plasm | formation; structure |
| -plastic | pertaining to formation |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -rrhage | rupture; bursting forth |
| -sis | state; condition |
| -stasis | stoppage of flow |
| -suppression | to stop |
| cu mm | cubic millimeters |
| diff | differential |
| Dx | diagnosis |
| eos | eosinophil |
| g/dL | grams per deciliter |
| HCT, hct | hematocrit (the proportion of the volume of blood that contains RBCs) |
| HIV | human immunodeficiency virus |
| Ig(A/D/E/G/M) | immunoglobulin A, D, E, G, M |
| lab | laboratory |
| lymphs | lymphocytes |
| million/uL | million per microliter |
| mono | monocytes |
| NK cells | natural killer cells |
| PLT, plt | platelet; platelet or thrombocyte (clotting cell) count |
| RBC | red blood cell or erythrocyte; red blood cell or erythrocyte count |
| segs (polys) | segmented, mature white blood cells (neutrophils) |
| STAT | immediately |
| Strep A | group A Streptococcus bacterium |
| WBC | white blood cell or leukocyte; white blood cell or leukocyte count |
| WBC differential | measure of the percentage of different types of white blood cells present in the blood |
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