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chapter 7
hematology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| phagocyte | cells that engulf and destryos or digest bacteria |
| Angi/o | Vessel |
| Hemostasis | The stopping or controlling of blood |
| Agglutin/o | to clump |
| Thromb/o | clot;thrombus |
| Globin | Protein |
| Bas/o | Base |
| Lysis | Destruction;breakdown |
| Blast/o | immature cell |
| Eosin/o | Red; Rosey |
| Erythr/o | Red |
| Granul/o | Granuels; grain |
| Philia | Attraction |
| Thym/o | Thymus |
| Myel/o | Spinal cord;bone marrow |
| lymphangi/o | lymph vessel |
| immun/o | protection |
| stasis | stopping or controlling |
| aggulation | clumping together of cells |
| oid | Resembling; like |
| osis | condition |
| is/o | equal |
| Kary/o | nucleous |
| penia | deficiency |
| ather/o | Fat; Fatty plaque |
| Poikil/o | varied; irregular |
| Spher/o | sphere; round |
| inter | between |
| lymphaden/o | lymph glands |
| Macro | large |
| Pathogen | any substances that cause disease |
| morph/o | shape; form |
| mono | one |
| Pan | all |
| splen/o | spleen |
| emia | blood condition |
| coagul/o | clotting |
| coagulation | process of blood clotting |
| corpuscle | any blood cell red or white |
| embolism | obstruction of blood vessels |
| Anemia | deficiency in quantity and or quality of blood |
| embolus | circulating blood clott |
| Hemorrhage | Excessive loss of blood |
| Leukemia | abnormal increase in # of immature blood wbc caused by a malignancy |
| lymphadenitis | inflammation of lymph gland |
| lymphadenopathy | disease of lymph gland |
| lymphoma | tumore of lymph tissue |
| mononucleosis | increase in the # of monocyte |
| polycytethemia | increase # of RBC |
| spherocytosis | abnormal condition of round or shperical shaped RBC |
| Thrombus | blood clott |
| Diff | WBC differential |
| ESR | Erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
| Hct | Hematocrit |
| Hgb | hemoglobin |
| dyscrasia | any abnormal condition of the blood |
| thrombosis | blood clotting withing a blood vessel |
| rouleaux | the abnormal stacking of rbc |
| erythrocytopenia | decreased # in the amount of RBC |
| poiesis | formation or production of |