Word Parts
The combining form cyt/o means
Cell
Hardening of the arteries
Arteriosclerosis
Excision of the thymus gland
thymectomy
The study of the immune system
immunology
state of plug
embolism
The combining form ather/o means
yellowish/fatty plaque
Excision of a vein
Phelbectomy
inflammation of lymph vessels
lymphangitis
Hypersensitivity to a substance, resulting in an inflammatory immune response
Allergy
dissolution of blood
hemolysis
The prefix that means surrounding (outer) is
Disease of the heart muscle
Cardiomyopathy
swelling of tissue
lymphedema
Being resistant to specific invading pathogens
Immunity
malignant disease characterized by excessive increase in abnormal leukocytes formed in the bone marrow
leukemia
The suffix -rrhage means
excessive flow
Enlargement of the heart's right ventricle due to pulmonary disease
Cor Pulmonale
Radiographic imaging of lymph vessels
lymphangiography
A substance that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against infectious disease.
Vaccine
escape of blood or other fluid from a vessel into the tissue
extravasation
How would you analyze and define the word thrombophlebitis?
Thromb/o/phleb/itis (WR/CV/WR/S)
Inflammation of a vein associated with a blood clot
A sound heard over an artery during auscultation, resulting from vibration in the vessel wall caused by turbulent blood flow.
Bruit
acute infection caused by the Epstein-Barr virus
Infectious mononucleosis
A disease in which clumps of inflammatory cells form in one or more organs of the body.
Sarcoidosis
Systemic inflammatory response caused by pathogenic microorganisms
Sepsis