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Medical Terminology Prefixes-Color

  1. alb-
    • white
    • (albino--person without skin pigment)
  2. chrlor/o-
    • Green
    • (chloroma--green cancerous tumor)
  3. cyan/o-
    • Blue
    • (cyanosis--bluish tissues)
  4. eosin/o-
    • Rosy
    • eosinophil
  5. erythr/o-
    • Red
    • (erythrocyte)
  6. leuk/o-
    • white
    • (leukocyte)
  7. melan/o-
    • black
    • (melanocyte)
  8. purpur/o-
    Purple (purpura--purplish skin; bruise)
  9. rose/o-
    • rose, pink
    • (roseola--pinkish skin)
  10. rube-
    • Red
    • (rubella--viral infection with red skin rash)
  11. xanth/o-
    • yellow
    • (xanthoderma--yellow skin)
Author
mangoboba
ID
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Card Set
Medical Terminology Prefixes-Color
Description
NURS 226 Quiz 4 part 2
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