MEDTERM Blood and Lymph Vocab

• aden/o

Gland

• agglutin/o

Clumping; sticking together

• bas/o

Base/Alkaline

• blast/o

Developing cell

• chrom/o

Color

• eosin/o

Rosy-red color

• erythr/o

Red

• granu/o

Granules, little grain

• hem/o or hemat/o

Blood

• immun/o

Immune; protection

• kary/o

Nucleus

• leuk/o

White

• lymph/o

Lymph

• lymphaden/o

Lymph node

• lymphangi/o

Lymphatic vessel

• morph/o

Shape; form

• myel/o

Bone marrow; spinal cord

• neutr/o

Neutral; neither

• nucle/o

Nucleus

• phag/o

Eat; swallow; engulf

• plas/o

Formation; growth

• reticul/o

Network, Net-like

• ser/o

Serum; serous

• sider/o

Iron

• splen/o

Spleen

• thromb/o

Clot

• thym/o

Thymus

• xen/o

Foreign

• a-

No; not; without

• allo-

Other; different

• aniso-

Unequal; asymmetrical

• iso-

Equal; same

• macro-

Large

• micro-

Small; tiny

• mono-

One; single

• poly-

Many; much

• -blast

Developing cell

• -emia

Blood condition

• -globin

Protein

• -graft

Transplant

• -osis

Abnormal condition

• -penia

Deficiency

• -phil

Attraction for

• -phoresis

Transmission; carrying

• -phylaxis

Protection

• -poiesis

Formation

• -stasis

Stoppage of flow

• RBC

Red blood cell

• WBC

White blood cell

• Hb or Hgb

Hemoglobin

• CBC

Complete blood count

• Splenectomy

Excision of the spleen

• Hematopoiesis

Production of blood

• Immunology

Study of immunity

• Erythropoiesis

Production of red blood cells

• Leukocytopenia

Deficiency or decrease in white blood cells

• Erythropenia

Deficiency in the number of red blood cells

• Leukocytosis

Abnormal increase in white blood cells

• Immunotherapy

Treatment of a disease affecting an immune response

• Lymphadenectomy

Surgical removal of one or more lymph nodes