| Element | Meaning | Word Analysis |
| agglutin/o | clumping, gluing | agglutin/ation: process of clumping
-ation: process (of ) |
| bas/o | base (alkaline, opposite of acid) | bas/o/phil: attraction to base (alkaline dyes) |
| blast/o | embryonic cell | erythr/o/blast/osis:abnormal increase of embryonic red (cells)
erythr/o: red
-osis: abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
| chrom/o | color | hypo/chrom/ic: under coloration
hypo-: under, below
-ic: pertaining to |
| eosin/o | dawn
(rose-colored) | eosin/o/phil : attraction for rose colored (dye)
-phil: attraction for |
| erythr/o | red | erythr/o/cyte: red cell
-cyte: cell |
| granul/o | granule | granul/o/cyte (GRA˘ N-u¯ -lo¯-s¯ıt): cell (containing) granulocytes (in the cytoplasm)
-cyte: cell |
| hem/o | blood | hem/o/phobia: fear of blood
-phobia: fear |
| hemat/o | blood | hemat/oma: blood tumor
-oma: tumor |
| immun/o | immune,
immunity, safe | immun/o/logy: study of immunity
-logy: study of |
| kary/o | nucleus | kary/o/lysis: destruction of the nucleus
-lysis: separation; destruction; loosening |
| nucle/o | nucleus | mono/nucle/ar: pertaining to a single nucleus
mono-: one
-ar: pertaining to |
| leuk/o | white | leuk/emia: white blood condition
-emia: blood condition |
| lymphaden/o | lymph gland
(Node) | lymphaden/o/pathy : disease of lymph nodes
-pathy: disease |
| lymph/o | lymph | lymph/oid: resembling lymph
-oid: resembling |
| lymphangi/o | lymph vessel | lymphangi/oma: tumor (composed of ) lymph vessels
-oma: tumor |
| morph/o | form, shape, structure | morph/o/logy: study of form, shape, and structure
structure -logy: study of |
| myel/o | bone marrow, spinal cord | myel/o/gen/ic: relating to the origin in bone marrow spinal cord gen: forming, producing, origin
-ic: pertaining to |
| neutr/o | neutral, neither | neutr/o/phil/ic: pertaining to an attraction for neutral dyes
-phil: attraction for
-ic: pertaining to, relating to |
| phag/o | swallowing, eating | phag/o/cyte : cell that eats (foreign material) |
| plas/o | formation,growth | a/plas/tic: pertaining to a failure to form
a-: without, not
-tic: pertaining to |
| poikil/o | varied,
irregular | poikil/o/cyte : cell that is irregular or varied (in shape) |
| reticul/o | net, mesh | reticul/o/cyte : cell (that contains a) net or meshwork |
| ser/o | serum | ser/o/logy: study of serum |
| sider/o | iron | sider/o/penia: deficiency of iron
-penia: decrease, deficiency |
| splen/o | spleen | splen/o/rrhagia: bursting forth of the spleen
-rrhagia: bursting forth |
| thromb/o | blood clot | thromb/osis: abnormal condition of a blood clot |
| thym/o | thymus gland | thym/o/pathy: disease of the thymus gland
-pathy: disease |
| xen/o | foreign,
strange | xen/o/graft: foreign transplantation, also called heterograft |
| -blast | embryonic cell | erythr/o/blast: embryonic red cell |
| -emia | blood
condition | an/emia: without blood |
| -globin | protein | hem/o/globin: blood protein |
| -graft | transplantation | auto/graft: self transplantation |
| -osis | abnormal condition increase (used
primarily with blood cells) | leuk/o/cyt/osis: abnormal increase in white (blood) cells |
| -penia | decrease,
deficiency | erythr/o/penia: abnormal decrease in red (blood cells) |
| -phil | attraction for | neutr/o/phil : attraction for a neutral (dye)
neutr/o: neutral, neither |
| -phoresis | carrying, transmission | electr/o/phoresis: carrying an electric (charge) |
| -phylaxis | protection | ana/phylaxis: against protection
ana-: against, up, back |
| -poiesis | formation,
production | hem/o/poiesis: formation of blood |
| -stasis | standing still | hem/o/stasis: standing still of blood |
| a- | without, not | a/morph/ic: without a (definite) form |
| allo- | other, differing from the normal | allo/graft: transplantation differing from the normal; also called homograft |
| aniso- | unequal, dissimilar | aniso/cyt/osis: abnormal increase in cells that are unequal |
| iso- | same, equal | iso/chrom/ic: pertaining to the same color |
| macro- | large | macro/cyte: large (red) cell |
| micro- | small | micro/cyte: small (red) cell |
| mono- | one | mono/nucle/osis: abnormal increase of mononuclear
(cells) |
| poly- | many, much | poly/morph/ic: pertaining to many forms or shapes |
| aden/o | gland | aden/oid: resembling a gland
-oid: resembling |
