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aden/o
- Combining Form
- Gland
- aden/oid - resembling a gland
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agglutin/o
- Combining Form
- clumping, gluing
- agglutin/ation - process of clumping
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bas/o
- Combining Form
- base (alkaline, opposite of acid)
- bas/o/phil - attraction to base
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blast/o
- Combining Form
- embryonic cell
- erythr/o/blast/osis - abnormal increase of embryonic red (cells)
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chrom/o
- Combining Form
- color
- hypo/chrom/ic - under coloration
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eosin/o
- Combining Form
- dawn (rose-colored)
- eosin/o/phil - attraction for rose colored (dye)
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erythr/o
- Combining Form
- red
- erythr/o/cyte - red cell
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granul/o
- Combining Form
- granule
- granul/o/cyte - cell (containing) granulocytes (in the cytoplasm)
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hem/o
- Combining Form
- blood
- hem/o/phobia - fear of blood
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hemat/o
- Combining Form
- blood
- hemat/oma - blood tumor
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immun/o
- Combining Form
- immune, immunity, safe
- immun/o/logy - study of immunity
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kary/o
- Combining Form
- nucleus
- kary/o/lysis - destruction of the nucleus
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nucle/o
- Combining Form
- nucleus
- mono/nucle/ar - pertaining to a singular nucleus
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leuk/o
- Combining Form
- white
- leuk/emia - white blood condition; increased # of leukocytes in the blood or tissues
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lymphaden/o
- Combining Form
- lymph gland (node)
- lymphaden/o/pathy - disease of lymph nodes
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lymph/o
- Combining Form
- lymph
- lymph/oid - resembling lymph
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lymphangi/o
- Combining Form
- lymph vessel
- lymphangi/oma - tumor (composed of) lymph vessels
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morph/o
- Combining Form
- form, shape, structure
- morph/o/logy - Study of form, shape, and structure
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myel/o
- Combining Form
- bone marrow; spinal cord
- myel/o/gen/ic - relating to the origin in bone marrow
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neutr/o
- Combining Form
- neutral, neither
- neutr/o/phil/ic - pertaining to an attraction for neutral dyes
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phag/o
- Combining Form
- swallowing, eating
- phag/o/cyte - cell that eats (foreign materials)
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plas/o
- Combining Form
- formation, growth
- a/plas/tic - pertaining to a failure to form
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poikil/o
- Combining Form
- varied, irregular
- poikil/o/cyte - cell that is irregular or varied (in shape)
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reticul/o
- Combining Form
- net, mesh
- reticul/o/cyte - cell (that contains a) net or meshwork
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ser/o
- Combining Form
- serum
- ser/o/logy - study of serum
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sider/o
- Combining Form
- iron
- sider/o/penia - deficiency of iron
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splen/o
- Combining Form
- spleen
- splen/o/rrhagia - bursting forth of the spleen
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thromb/o
- Combining Form
- blood clot
- thromb/osis - abnormal condition of a blood clot
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thym/o
- Combining Form
- thymus gland
- thym/o/pathy - disease of the thymus gland
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xen/o
- Combining Form
- foreign, strange
- xen/o/graft - foreign transplantation, also called heterograft
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-blast
- Suffix
- embryonic cell
- erythr/o/blast - embryonic red cell
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-emia
- Suffix
- blood condition
- an/emia - without blood
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-globin
- Suffix
- protein
- hem/o/globin - blood protein
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-graft
- Suffix
- transplantation
- auto/graft - self implantation
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-osis
- Suffix
- abnormal condition; increase
- leuk/o/cyt/osis - abnormal increase in white (blood) cells
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-penia
- Suffix
- decrease, deficiency
- erythr/o/penia - abnormal decrease in red (blood cells)
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-phil
- Suffix
- attraction for
- neutr/o/phil - attraction for a neutral (dye)
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-phoresis
- Suffix
- carrying, transmission
- electr/o/phoresis - carrying an electric (charge)
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-phylaxis
- Suffix
- protection
- ana/phylaxis - against protection
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allo-
- Prefix
- other, differing from the normal
- allo/graft - transplantation differing from the normal; also called homograft
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anis-
- Prefix
- unequal, dissimilar
- aniso/cyt/osis - abnormal increase in the cells that are unequal
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iso-
- Prefix
- same, equal
- iso/chrom/ic - pertaining to the same color
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