Understanding Word Parts in the Blood and the Lymphatic and Immune system

adenoid/o

adenoids

agglutin/o

clumping;sticking together

angi/

vessel (blood)

arteri/o

artery

erythr/o

blood

iatr/o

physician;treatment

log/o

study

ly/o

break down; dissolve; loosen

lymph/o, lymphat/o

lymph

lymphaden/o

lymph node

lymphangi/o

lymphatic vessel

morph/o

shape;form

myel/o

bone marrow; spinal cord

path/o

disease

phag/o

eat;swallow;engulf

phleb/o

vein

ser/o

serum;serous

thromb/o

clot

thym/o

thymus

tonsill/o

tonsils

tox/o

posion

ven/i,ven/o

vein

vir/o

virus

en-

in;within

epi-

on;over;upon

neo-

new

pro-

before;forward

trans-

across

-ation

process;condition

-blast

developing cell

-crit

to separate

-ectomy

surgical removal;excision

-emia

blood condition

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

-fusion

to pour; to come together

-gen

a substance that produces

-gloulin

protien

-ia

condition

-in,-ine

chemical;chemical compound;substance

-lysis

breakdown; separation; loosening

-lytic

pertaining to breakdown or destruction

-megaly

enlargment

-penia

deficiency

-phage

eat;swallow

-pheresis

removal

-phil,-philia

love;attraction for

-phoresis

transmission;carrying

-plasm

formation;structure

-plastic

pertaining to formation

-plasty

surgical repair

-poiesis

formation

-rrhage

rupture;bursting forth (of blood)

-sis

state;condition

-stasis

stoppage of flow

-tomy

process of cutting;incision