Med Term Ch 6 Blood combining forms, prefixes, suffixes

combining form for clumping

agglutin/o

combining form for base

bas/o

combining form for color

chrom/o

combining form for clotting

coagul/o

combining form for rosy red

eosin/o

combining form for pouring

fus/o

combining form for granules

granul/o

combining form for blood (4 letters)

hem/o

combining form for blood (5 letters)

hemat/o

combining form for shape

morph/o

combining form for bone marrow, spinal cord

myel/o

combining form for neutral

neutr/o

combining form for eat, swallow

phag/o

combining form for blood (8 letters)

sanguin/o

combining form for infection

septic/o

suffix for removal

-apheresis

suffix for separation of

-crit

suffix for pertaining to cells

-cytic

suffix for more than the normal number of cells

-cytosis

suffix for blood condition

-emia

suffix for protein

-globin

suffix for resembling

-oid

suffix for abnormal decrease

-penia

suffix for attracted to

-phil

suffix for condition of being attracted to

-philia

suffix for pertaining to being attracted to

-phillic

suffix for pertaining to formation

-plastic

suffix for formation (#1)

-plastin

suffix for formation (#2)

-poiesis

suffix for pertaining to abnormal flow

-rrhagic

suffix for standing still

-stasis

combining form for cell

cyt/o

combining form for fibers

fibrin/o

combining form for white

leuk/o

combining form for fat

lip/o

combining form for vein

phleb/o

combining form for clot

thromb/o

suffix for abnormal decrease, too few

-penia

combining form for lymph

lymph/o

suffix for destruction

-lytic

suffix for mass

-oma

suffix for cutting into

-otomy

suffix for abnormal flow

-rrhage

suffix for pertaining to

-tic

Prefix for without (1 letter)

a-

Prefix for without (2 letters)

an-

Prefix for against (4 letters)

anti-

Prefix for against (5 letters)

contra-

Prefix for self

auto-

Prefix for abnormal

dys-

Prefix for same

homo-

Prefix for excessive

hyper-

Prefix for insufficient

hypo-

Prefix for one

mono-

Prefix for all

pan-

Prefix for many

poly-

Prefix for across

trans-