immune/lymphatic system vocab

aden/o

gland

agglutin/o

clumping; sticking together

angi/o

vessel(blood)

arteri/o

artery

bacteri/o

bacteria

calc/o

calcium

eti/o

the cause of a disease or condition

fung/o

fungus

hem/a; hem/o; hemat/o

blood

iatr/o

physician; treatment

kal/i

potassium

kary/o

nucleus

leuk/o

white

lipid/o

fatty deposits; lipids

ly/o

break down, dissolve, loosen

thromb/o

clot

morph/o

shape, form

phag/o

eat, swallow

phleb/o

vein

ser/o

serum, serous

splen/o

spleen

lymph/o, lymphat/o

lymph

thym/o

thymus

tox/o

poison

ven/I, ven/o

vein

vir/o

virus

macro-, mega-

large

meta-

change, beyond

mono-

singular; one

neo-

new

poly-

many, much

pro-

before, forward

-ation

process; condition

-blast

developing cell

-capnia

carbon dioxide

-cide

to kill

-crit

to seperate

-emia

blood condition

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

-fuge

to seperate by spinning

-fusion

to pour, to come together

-gen

substance that produces

-globulin

protien

-in, -ine

chemical, compound, substance, pertaining to

-therapy

treatment

-phage

eat, swallow

-pheresis

removal

-phil, -phillia

love, attraction for

-phoresis

transmission, carrying

-plasm

formation, structure

-plastic

pertaining to formation

-poiesis

formation

-sis

state, condition

-stasis

stoppage of flow-

-suppression

to stop

-lytic

pertaining to breakdown or destruction

AIDS

acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

CBC

complete blood count

EBV

epstien-barr virus

HBV

hepatitis B virus

HIV

human immunodeficiency virus

PLT, plt

platelet/thrombocyte count

RBC

red blood cell/ erythrocyte OR red blood cell/erythrocyte count

HX/hx

history

NK cells

natural killer cells

STAT

immediately

Strep A

Group A streptococcus bacterium

WBC

white blood cells/leukocytes OR white blood cell/leukocyte count