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Chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aden/o | gland |
| adenoid/o | adenoid |
| append/o, appendic/o | appendix |
| bacteri/o | bacteria |
| eti/o | the cause of a disease |
| fung/o | fungus |
| iatr/o | medicine, healing, physician |
| immun/o | immune, protected |
| lymphaden/o | lymph nodes |
| lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
| autoimmune illness | auto- = self -immune = immunity, immune response |
| carcinoma in situ (in SY-tyoo,SI-tyoo, or SI-too) | carcin/o = cancer -oma = tumor, mass |
| lymphoma (lim-FOH-muh) | lymph/o = lymph -oma = tumor, mass |
| macrophage (MAK-roh-fayj) | macro- = large -phage = one that eats |
| metastatic (met-uh-STAT-ik) cancer | meta- = change -static = pertaining to place |
| monocyte (MAHN-oh-syt) | mono- = one -cyte = cell |
| oncologist (ahn-KAHL-uh-gist) | onc/o = tumor -logist = one who studies |
| oncology (ahn-KAHL-uh-jee) | onc/o = tumor -logy = study of |
| pathogen (PATH-oh-jen or PATH-uh-jen) | path/o = disease -gen = producing |
| sarcoidosis (sar-koyd-OH-sis) | sarc/o = flesh -oid = resembling -osis = abnormal condition |
| immunotherapy | immun/o = immune, protected -therapy = treatment |
| intradermal allergy test | intra- = within derm/o = skin -al = pertaining to |
| lymphadenectomy (lim-FAD-en-EK-tuh-mee or lim-FAD-uhn-EK-tuh-mee) | lymphaden/o = lymph node -ectomy = surgical removal |
| CD4 | a type of T lymphocyte destroyed by HIV infection |
| AIDS | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
| CRE | carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales |
| EBV | Epstein-Barr virus |
| EI, EIA | enzyme immunoassay |
| HIV | human immunodeficiency virus |
| MDRO | multidrug-resistant organism |