Blood, Lymph, & Immune Systems Vocabulary
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- aden/o adenopathy
- gland
- blast/o eryth/o/blast/osis
- embryonic cell
- chrom/o hypochromic
- color
- eosin/o eosinophil
- dawn (rose colored)
- erythr/o erythrocyte
- red
- granul/o granulocyte
- granule
-
hem/o hemolysis
hemat/o hematoma - blood
- immun/o immunologist
- safe
-
kary/o karyolysis
nucle/o nuclear - nucleus
- leuk/o leukemia
- white
- lymph/o lymphoma
- lymph
- morph/o morphology
- shape
- myel/o myeloid
- bone marrow, spinal cord
- phag/o phagocyte
- swallowing, eating
- poikil/o poikilocyte
- varied, irregular
- reticul/o reticulocyte
- net, mesh
- sider/o hemosiderosis
- iron
- splen/o splenomegaly
- spleen
- thromb/o thrombolysis
- blood clot
- thym/o thymectomy
- thymus
- -blast myeloblast
- embryonic cell
- -emia anemia
- blood condition
- -globin hemoglobin
- protein
- -osis erythrocytosis
-
abnormal condition, abnormal increase
(when used with blood cells) - -penia leukocytopenia
- decrease, deficiency
- -phil eosinophil
- attraction to (for)
- -phoresis electrophoresis
- borne, carried
- -poiesis hemopoiesis
- formation, production
- -stasis hemostasis
- standing still
- a- agranulocyte
- without, not
- aniso- anisocytosis
- unequal, dissimilar
- htero- heterophil
- different
- homo- homograft
- same
- iso- isochromic
- same, equal
- macro- macrocytic
- large
- micro- microcytosis
- small
- mono- monocyte
- one
- poly- polymorphonuclear
- many, much