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Blood, Lymphatic
Blood, Lymphatic and Immune System
| Adenoid/o | adenoids |
| Agglutin/o | clumping; sticking; together |
| Angi/o | vessel (blood) |
| Cyt/o | cell |
| Erythr/o | red |
| Fung/o | fungus |
| Hem/, hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
| Iatr/o | physician; treatment |
| Immun/o | immune |
| 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 | shpe; form |
| myel/o | bone marrow; spinal cord |
| nucle/o | nucleus |
| path/o | disease |
| phag/o | eat; swallow; engulf |
| phleb/o | vein |
| ser/o | serum |
| splen/o | spleen |
| thromb/o | clot |
| thym/o | thymus |
| tonsill/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 |
| poly- | many; much |
| pro- | before; forward |
| trans- | across |
| -al, -ar, -ic, -ical, -tic | Pertaining to |
| -ation | process; condition |
| -blast | developing cell |
| -crit | to separate |
| -cyte | cell |
| -e | noun (suffix with no meaning) |
| -ectomy | surgical removal; excision |
| -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 |
| -logist | specialist |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdown; separation |
| -lytic | pertaining to breakdown or separation |
| -megaly | enlargement |
| -oma | tumor; mass |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phage | eat; swallow |
| -pheresis | removal |
| -phil, -philia | love; attraction for |
| -poiesis | transmission; carrying |
| -plasm | to pour; to come together |
| -plastic | pertaining to formation |
| -plasty | surgical repair |
| -poresis | formation |
| -rrhage | rupture; bursting forth (of blood) |
| -sis | state; condition |
| -stasis | stoppage of flow |
| -suppression | to stop |
| -therapy | treatment |
| -tomy | process of cutting; incision |