Chapter 11 blood Med Term

lymph/o: lymph

gen/o: to create, to produce

-esis: abnormal condition, action, process

-globin: protein

leuk/o: white

neutr/o: neutral

cyte: cell

-cyte: cell

granul/o: granule

-ia: condition

pan-: all

anti-: against

poikil/o: irregularly shaped

-logist: specialist in the study of

-osis: condition

-oma: tumor

bas/o: base, alkaline

-gen: to create, to produce

-crit: to separate

macro-: large

thromb/o: clot

globul/o: protein

-poiesis: to make

an-: no, not, without

hem/o: blood

hypo-: deficient, below

mono-: one

chrom/o: color

nucle/o: control center

ox/o: oxygen

fibrin/o: fiber

-stasis: control, stay in one place, stop

a-: no, not, without

eosin/o: dawn, rosy-red

-pathy: disease

-philia: attraction for

-lysis: destruction, separation

-poietin: the maker of

coagul/o: clotting, clump

plas/o: formation

blast/o: immature cell

-penia: deficiency

-logy: study of

spher/o: sphere

morph/o: shape

-oid: resembling

immun/o: protection

hemat/o: blood

erythr/o: red

poly-: much, many

-in: chemical compound

myel/o: spinal cord, bone marrow

-phil: attraction for

micro-: small

-ant: agent, forming

globin/o: protein

phage: to eat, swallow

cyt/o: cell

-us: pertaining to

-ic: pertaining to

-emia: blood condition

hyp(o)-: deficient, below The o is dropped if the root begins with an o; derived from hypo-

-us: pertaining to

phil/o: attraction for

emia: blood condition