level: Building Terms
Questions and Answers List
level questions: Building Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Albumin/o | Albumin |
| Bas/o | Base; blue |
| Bilirubin/o | Bilirubin |
| Chrom/o | Color |
| Coagul/o | Clotting; Coagulation |
| Cyt/o | Cell |
| Eosin/o | Red; Rosy; Dawn; Acid |
| Erythr/o | Red |
| Granul/o | Granules |
| Hem/o | Blood |
| Hemoglobin/o | Hemoglobin |
| Home/o | Sameness; Unchanging; Constant |
| Is/o | Same; Equal |
| Kary/o | Nucleus |
| Leuko/o | White |
| Lip/o | Fat |
| Lymph/o | Lymph |
| Mon/o | One; Single |
| Morph/o | Shape; Form |
| Myel/o | Bone Marrow; Spinal Cord |
| Neutr/o | Neutrophil; Neutral; Neither |
| Nucle/o | Nucleus |
| Phag/o | Eat; Swallow |
| Phleb/o | Vein |
| Poikil/o | Irregular; Varied |
| Protein/o | Protein |
| Sider/o | Iron |
| Spher/o | Round; Globe-shaped |
| Thromb/o | Clot |
| A-, An- | no; not; without |
| Anti- | against |
| Dys- | bad; abnormal; difficult |
| Hyper- | excessive; increased; above |
| Hypo- | deficient; below; under; less then normal; decreased |
| Macro- | large |
| Micro- | small |
| Mono- | Single; one |
| Pan- | all |
| Poly- | many; much |
| -ar | pertaining to |
| -blast | immature; embryonic |
| -cyte | cell |
| -cytosis | increase in number of cells |
| -emia | blood condition |
| -emic | pertaining to a blood condition |
| -genous | producing |
| -globin | protein |
| -logy | study of |
| -lysis | breakdown; destruction; separation; loosening |
| -lytic | to reduce; destroy; separate; breakdown |
| -oid | resembling |
| -osis | abnormal condition |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| -penia | deficiency |
| -phage | eat; swallow |
| -phil | attraction for |
| -philia | increase in the number of cells; attraction for |
| -plasia | development; formation; growth |
| -poiesis | formation |
| -rrhage | bursting forth |
| -stasis | stopping; controlling; place |
| -tomy | incision; process of cutting into |