Word Roots
Prefixes/Suffixes
Abbreviations
Medical Terminology
Name that Term
100
hem or hemat
What is blood?
100
emia
What is blood condition?
100
CA
What is cancer?
100
White blood cell
What is a leukocyte?
100
Branch of medicine concerned with the study of cancerous growths (malignancies)
What is oncology?
200
splen
What is spleen?
200
micro
What is small?
200
CBC
What is complete blood count?
200
Dissolution of a blood clot
What is thrombolysis?
200
Production and development of blood cells, normally in the bone marrow
What is hematopoiesis?
300
phag
What is swallowing, eating?
300
mono
What is one?
300
WNL
What is within normal limits?
300
standing still of blood
What is hemostasis?
300
Blood disorder characterized by a deficiency of red blood cell production and hemoglobin, increased red blood cell destruction or blood loss.
What is anemia?
400
poiesis
What is formation, production?
400
stasis
What is standing still?
400
Hb, Hgb
What is hemoglobin?
400
Disease of a gland
What is adenopathy?
400
Fluid between cells and in tissue spaces
What is interstitial fluid?
500
lymphangi
What is lymph vessel?
500
phylaxis
What is protection?
500
EBV
What is Epstein-Barr virus?
500
Process by which particles are caused to adhere and form into clumps
What is agglutination?
500
Group of hereditary bleeding disorders characterized by a deficiency of one of the factors necessary for coagulation of blood
What is hemophilia?
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