Combining Forms
Erythr/o
What is red?
Manufactured in the bone marrow and produces cells to aid the immune system
What are leukocytes?
Leukocyte that only has 1 nucleus
What is a mononuclear leukocyte?
Helps to maintain the proper amount of water in the blood
What is albumin?
A colorless or faintly yellow fluid that helps remove wastes, toxins, and other harmful substances from the body
What is lymph?
Can transform into plasma cells in response to an antigen
What are B cells
Enlargement of the spleen often associated with the destruction of blood cells, results in anemia, leukopenia, or thrombocytopenia
What is splenomegaly?
Hct
Phag/o
What is eat, swallow or engulf?
Aids in coagulation
What are thrombocytes
Contains histamine and heparin
What are basophils?
Key protein involved in blood clotting that is formed in the liver and helps blood clot by creating bridges between blood platelets
What is fibrinogen?
Small bean shaped structures located throughout the body
What are lymph nodes?
Made in the bone marrow but mature in the thymus and are a key role in the immune response and they are involved in cell-mediated immunity.
What are T cells?
Disease in which the immune system attacks the cells or tissues in one’s own body
What is autoimmune disease?
IgA
What is immunoglobulin A?
Kary/o
What is nucleus?
A type of blood cell that contains hemoglobin instead of a nucleus
What are erythrocytes?
Secrete chemicals to attack disease causing parasites and responds during an allergic reaction
What are eosinophils?
Plays an important role in blood clotting that forms in the liver and is converted to the protein thrombin when injury occurs to a blood vessel
What is prothrombin?
Grows throughout childhood and begins to atrophy after puberty and secretes thymosin, a hormone that stimulates the bone marrow to manufacture T lymphocytes
What is the Thymus?
Aid B cells in recognizing antigens and stimulating antibody production
What are helper cells?
Rare genetic disorder in which the blood fails to clot normally due to the absence of a clotting protein in the blood, resulting in longer bleeding time during injury or trauma
What is hemophilia?
NK cells
What are natural killer cells?
Iatr/o
What is physician or treatment?
What is hemoglobin?
Cells involved in immune surveillance and destroying foreign cells in the body
What are lymphocytes?
Transport lipids through the blood
What are Alpha and Beta globulins?
Largest lymphatic organ that filters the blood by destroying worn out erythrocytes in a process of hemolysis
What is the spleen?
Target pathogenic cells by recognizing certain sugars present on their surfaces.
What are natural killer cells?
Acute, infectious illness, usually caused by the Epstein Barr virus, and marked by an increased number of atypical lymphocytes and monocytes
What is mononucleosis?
cc mm
Agglutin/o
What is clumping; sticking together
The liquid portion of blood
What is plasma?
Large, single nucleus phagocytes that ingest and dispose of dead or dying cells and tissues
What are monocytes?
Composed mostly of immunoglobulins
Gamma globulins
Primary function is to protect the body against harmful invaders that enter through the digestive tract
What are Peyer's patches?
slow or stop the activity of B or T cells once a disease-causing invader has been controlled or destroyed
What are suppressor cells?
Bone marrow disorder that causes excessive production of RBCs
What is polycythemia?
eos
What are eosinophils?