Lecture 2 (Latin Prefixes, Suffixes, Terms)

A/An

• lack

• without

• absent

• decreased

Aniso

unequal, dissimilar

Cyt

cell

Dyst

• abnormal

• difficult

• bad

Erythro

red

Ferr

iron

Ferritin

keep taking iron

Hemo / Hemato

pertaining to blood

Hypo

• beneath

• under

• deficient

Hyper

• above

• beyond

• extreme

Iso

• equal

• alike

• same

Leuko

white

Macro

large, giant

Meta

after, next, change

Micro

small

Myelo

from bone marrow, spinal cord

Pan

all-over, all-inclusive

Phleb

vein

Phago

eat, ingest

Poikilo

varied, irregular

Poly

many

Schis

split

Scle

hard

Splen

Spleen

Thromb

clot

Xanth

yellow

Cyto

cell

-cyte

cell

-emia

blood

-itis

inflammation

-lysis

destruction / dissolving

-oma

swell / tumor

-opathy

disease

-osis

abnormal increase

-penia

deficiency, decrease

-phil

attracted

-plasia

cell production / repair

-poiesis

cell production, formation, develop

-poietin

stimulated, production

Anisocytosis

variation in cell size

Poikilocytosis

variation in cell shape

Aplasia

absence of cellular production

Dysmyelopoiesis

abnormal development of marrow cells

Panmyelosis

an abnormal increase in all marrow cells

Vitamin A

• Retinol

• Retinyl esters

• Provitamin A carotenoids

  • beta-carotene

Vitamin B

• Thiamin

• Riboflavin

• Niacin

• Pantothenic acid

• Vitamin B6

• Biotin

• Folate/Folic acid

• Vitamin B12

Vitamin C

• Ascorbic acid

• Ascorbyl-6 palmitate

• Magnesium ascrobyl

Ascorbic acid

this type of vitamin A is the least stable and is oxidized by air

Magnesium ascorbyl

this type of Vit A is the most stable