Suffix
-emia
blood condition
-blast
immature or embryonic cell
hem/o
blood
cytology
study of cells
-osis
abnormal condition
-penia
deficiency
eosin/o
red, dawn
leukemia
abnormal condition of white blood cells
morph/o
shape, form
-lytic
pertaining to destruction
-phage
eat, swallow
coagul/o
clotting
thrombocytopenia
deficiency of clotting cells
chrom/o
color
-poiesis
formation
cytosis
abnormal condition of cells
is/o
same, equal
hemostasis
stoppage of the flow of blood
phagocyte
cell that ingests other organisms
-apheresis
removal, a carrying away
-phoresis
carrying, transmission
sider/o
iron
erythropoiesis
formation of erythrocytes
hemolysis
destruction of blood cells