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Blood & Lymphatic
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | Immune; protection |
| Kary/o | Nucleus |
| Leuk/o | White |
| 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 |
| Tonsil/o | Tonsils |
| Tox/o | Poison |
| Ven/i, Ven/o | Vein |
| Vir/o | Virus |
| A-, an- | Not; without |
| Anti- | Against |
| Auto- | Self |
| Con- | Together; with |
| En- | In; within |
| Epi- | On; over; upon |
| Macro- | Large |
| Mega- | Large |
| Meta- | Change; beyond |
| Mono- | One; single |
| Neo- | new |
| Pro- | Before; forward |
| Trans- | Across |
| -ation | Process; condition |
| -blast | Developing cells |
| -crit | To separate |
| -e | (noun suffix with no meaning) |
| -ectomy | Surgical removal |
| -emia | Blood condition |
| -emic | Pertaining to blood condition |
| -fusion | To pour; to come together |
| -gen | Substance that produces |
| -globulin | Protein |
| -ia | Condition |
| -in, ine | Chemical; chemical compound; Substance |
| -itis | Inflammation |
| -lysis | Breakdown; separation; loosening |
| -lytic | Pertaining to breakdown or destruction |
| -megaly | Enlargement |
| -oma | Tumor; mass |
| -osis | Abnormal condition |
| -penia | Deficiency |
| -phage | Eat; swallow |
| -pheresis | Removal |
| -phil, -phila | Love; attraction for |
| -phoresis | Transmission; carrying |
| -plasm | Formation; structure |
| -plastic | Pertaining to formation |
| -poiesis | Formation |
| -rrhage | Rupture; bursting forth (of blood) |
| -sis | State; condition |
| -stasis | Stoppage of flow |
| -suppression | To stop |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -tomy | Process of cutting |