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-e

(noun suffix with no meaning)

-osis

abnormal condition

trans-

across

adenoid/o

adenoids

anti-

against

arteri/o

artery

pro-

before, forward

hem, hem/o, hemat, hemat/o

blood

-emia

blood condition

myel/o

bone marrow, spinal cord

-lysis

break down

ly/o

break down; dissolve; loosen

-phoresis

carrying, transmission

-cyte

cell

cyt/o

cell

meta-

change, beyond

-in , _ine

chemical

thromb/o

clot

agglutin/o

clumping; sticking together

-ia

condition

-penia

deficiency

-blast

developing cell

path/o

disease

-phage

eat, swallow

phag/o

eat, swallow

-megaly

enlargement

-plasm

formation

-poiesis

formation

fung/o

fungus

immun/o

immune, protection, safe

en-

in , within

-itis

inflammation

macro-

large

mega-

large

-phil , -philia

love; attraction for

lymph/o, lymphat/o

lymph

lymphaden/o

lymph node

lymphangi/o

lymphatic vessel

poly-

many, much

neo-

new

a- , an-

not, without

kary/o

nucleus

nucle/o

nucleus

epi-

on; over; upon

mono-

one, single

-al , -ar , -ic , -ical , -tic

pertaining to

-emic

pertaining to blood condition

-lytic

pertaining to destruction

-plastic

pertaining to formation

iatr/o

physician, treatment

tox/o

poison

vir/o

poison

-tomy

process of cutting, incision

-ation

process, condition

-globulin

protein

erythr/o

red

-pheresis

removal

-rrhage

repture

auto-

self

ser/o

serum, serous

morph/o

shape, form

-logist

specialist

splen/o

spleen

-sis

state, condition

-stasis

stopping, controlling

log/o

study

-logy

study of

-gen

substance or agent that produces or causes

-ectomy

surgical removal

-plasty

surgical repair

thym/o

thymus

-fusion

to pour , to come together

-crit

to separate

-suppression

to stop

con-

together , with

tonsill/o

tonsils

-therapy

treatment

-oma

tumor, mass

phleb/o

vein

ven/i, ven/o

vein

angi/o

vessel (blood)

leuk/o

white


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