Medical Terminology Ch 9

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Antibody (Ab)

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Protective protein produced by B lymphocytes in response to the presence of a foreign substance called an antigen

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Antigen

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Substance, recognized as harmful to the host, that stimulates formation of antibodies in an immunocompetent individual

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Bile pigment

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Substance derived from the brandywine of hemoglobin and excreted by the liver

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Cytokine

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Chemical substance produced by certain cells that initiates, inhibits, increases, or decreases activity in other cells

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Immunocompetent

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Ability to develop an immune response or recognize antigens and respond to them

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Natural killer (NK) cells

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Specialized lymphocytes that kill abnormal cells by releasing chemicals that destroy the cell membrane, causing its intercellular fluids to leak out

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Aden/o

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Gland

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-oid

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Resembling

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Agglutin/o

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Clumping, gluing

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Bas/o

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Base (alkaline, opposite of acid)

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Blast/o

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Embryonic cell

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Chrom/o

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Color

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Eosin/o

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Dawn (rose colored)

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Erythr/o

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Red

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Granul/o

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Granule

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Hem/o

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Blood

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Hemat/o

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Blood

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Immun/o

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Immune, immunity, safe

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Kary/o

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Nucleus

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Nucle/o

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Nucleus

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Leuk/o

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White

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Lymphaden/o

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Lymph gland (node)

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Lymph/o

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Lymph

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Lymphangi/o

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Lymph vessel

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Morph/o

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Form, shape, structure

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Myel/o

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Bone marrow; spinal cord

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Neutr/o

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Neutral, neither

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Phag/o

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Swallowing, eating

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Plas/o

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Formation, growth

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Poikil/o

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Varied, irregular

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Reticul/o

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Net, mesh

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Ser/o

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Serum

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Sider/o

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Iron

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Splen/o

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Spleen

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Thromb/o

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Blood clot

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Thym/o

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Thymus gland

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Xen/o

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Foreign, Strange

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-blast

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Embryonic cell

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-emia

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Blood condition

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-globin

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Protien

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-graft

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Transplantation

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-osis

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Abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells)

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-penia

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Decrease, deficiency

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-phil

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Attraction for

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-phoresis

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Carrying, transmission

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-phylaxis

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Protection

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-poiesis

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Formation, production

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A-

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Without, not

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Allo-

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Other, differing from normal

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Aniso-

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Unequal, dissimilar

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Iso-

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Same, equal

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Macro-

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Large

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Micro-

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Small

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Mono-

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One

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Poly-

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Many, much