Hematology Med Term

myel/o

spinal cord, bone marrow

lip/o

fat

glyc/o, gluc/o

sugar (glycose, glucose)

hem/o, hemat/o

blood

leuk/o

white

neutr/o

neutral

thromb/o

clot

bas/o

base

coagul/o

clotting

embol/o

embolus

trans-

through

pan-

all

mono-

one

auto-

self

poly-

many

-penia

too few

-cytosis

abnormal cell condition (too many)

-otomy

surgical incision

-emia

blood condition

-globin

protein

-ia

condition

-ic, -tic

pertaining to

-logist

specialist

-plasm

formative material of cells

-lysis, -lytic

destruction

-meter

instrument to measure

-metry

process of measuring

-poesis

formation

-osis

abnormal condition

-phil

attracted to

cyan/o

blue

leuk/o

white

erythr/o

red

cirrh/o

yellow-orange

melan/o

black

poli/o

gray

alb/o

white

chlor/o

green

eosin/o

rosy red

anemia

blood has reduced amount of hemoglobin in RBC

anticoagulant

prevents clot formation

aplastic anemia

severe anemia caused by loss of functioning red bone marrow

autologous transfusion

patient receives their own blood from a previous collection

autotransfusion

collecting and storing ones own blood to replace lost blood in surgery

coagulation

blood clotting

cholesterol

fatty substance

embolism

obstruction of a blood vessel by embolus

embolus

clot circulating in blood

eosinophils

WBC, fights off parasitic infection and allergic reactions

erythrocyte

red blood cell

formed elements

RBC, WBC, platelets (cells and cell fragments in plasma)

hematology

study of blood

hematoma

collection of blood under skin from damaged blood vessels

hematologist

specialist of blood

hematopoiesis

process of forming new blood cells

hemoglobin

blood protein

hemolysis

destruction of red blood cells

hemophilia

inherited lack of a vital clotting factor, an inability to stop bleeding

hemostasis

body’s response to stop bleeding to repair damaged blood vessel

hyperglycemia

abnormally high levels of glucose in the blood

hypoglycemia

abnormally low blood sugar

leukemia

cancer with abnormally large number of leukocytes in blood

leukocytes

WBC that fight body infection

pernicious anemia

vitamin b12 deficiency

platelets

thrombocytes

polycythemia vera

abnormally high production of RBC

plasma

liquid portion of blood

sickle cell anemia

inherited blood disorder where erythrocytes have abnormal sickle shape

thrombocytopenia

deficiency of clotting cells

thrombolytic

destruction of clots

thrombus

blood clot