Suffixes
"swelling"
What is -edema?
A situation when a combining vowel is never used.
What is between a prefix and a word root?
The narrowest blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
Hematoma.
What is commonly called a bruise?
Action of dividing the term into its word parts
What is the first step in analyzing the term?
"abnormal condition"
What is -iasis?
The beginning of a medical term.
What is the prefix?
The inner lining of the heart
What is endocardium?
Protection protein.
What is immunoglobulin?
Medical terminology word part that provides the essential meaning of the word.
What is the word root?
"stopping"
What is -stasis?
Combining form meaning "rosy red".
What is eosino?
A "yellow, fatty deposit of lipids in an artery"
What is plaque?
Coagulate.
What is the term that describes the formation of a blood clot?
Prefix meaning below.
What is infra-?
"tumor" or "mass"
What is -oma?
White blood cells most involved in carrying out the functions of the immune system.
What are lymphocytes?
An example of an eponym.
What is Alzheimer Disease?
Also accepted anything named after the person who was afflicted by or discovered it...
Blood protein.
What is hemoglobin?
The direction blood flows in the veins.
What is back to the heart?
"pregnancy"
What is -cyesis?
Stimulates antibody production to give protection against disease.
What is a vaccination?
Blood enters this after exiting the left ventricle.
What is the aorta?
Erythropoiesis.
What is the formation of red cells?
A blood test measuring the volume of red blood cells within the total volume of blood.
What is hematocrit?