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Cardiovascular System – Blood Vessels and Blood
Cardiovascular System – Blood Vessels and Blood
Learning Objectives
- Identify the anatomy and describe the main functions of blood vessels and the composition of blood
- Analyze, translate, and define medical terms and common abbreviations of blood vessels and the blood system
- Practice the spelling and pronunciation of blood vessel and blood system medical terminology
- Identify the medical specialties associated with the blood vessels and blood and explore common diseases, disorders, diagnostic test and procedures
Key Word Components
Identify meanings of key word components of the cardiovascular system – blood vessels and blood:
Prefixes
- a- (absence of, without)
- pan- (all, total)
- epi- (on, upon, over)
- inter- (between)
- peri- (surrounding, around)
- endo- (within, in)
- hypo- (below, deficient)
- hyper- (above, excessive)
- poly- (many, much)
Combining Forms
- angi/o (vessel, blood vessel)
- aort/o (aorta)
- arteri/o (artery)
- ather/o (fatty plaque)
- chrom/o (color)
- coagul/o (clotting)
- cyt/o (cell)
- eosin/o (red, dawn, rosy)
- erythr/o (red)
- hemat/o (blood)
- hem/o (blood)
- is/o (same, equal)
- isch/o (deficiency, blockage)
- lymph/o (lymph, lymph tissue)
- lymphaden/o (lymph node, lymph tissue)
- leuk/o (white)
- myel/o (bone marrow, spinal cord)
- mon/o (one, single)
- neutr/o (neutral; neither base nor acid)
- phag/o (eat, swallow)
- phleb/o (vein)
- plasm/o (plasma)
- poikil/o (varied, irregular)
- therm/o (heat)
- thromb/o (clot)
- thym/o (thymus gland)
- splen/o (spleen)
- ven/o (vein)
Suffixes
- -ac (pertaining to)
- -apheresis (removal)
- -ar (pertaining to)
- -blast (immature cell, embryonic)
- -centesis (surgical puncture to aspirate fluid)
- -cytosis (abnormal condition of cells (increase in cells))
- -ectomy (excision, surgical removal)
- -emia (in the blood)
- -genic (producing, originating, causing)
- -globin (protein)
- -gram (record, radiographic image)
- -graph (instrument used to record)
- -graphy (process of recording, radiographic imaging)
- -ia (condition of, diseased state, abnormal state)
- -ic (pertaining to)
- -itis (inflammation)
- -logist (specialist who studies and treats)
- -logy (specialty)
- -lysis (loosening, dissolution, separating)
- -megaly (enlarged, enlargement)
- -logist (specialist, physician who studies and treats)
- -oid (resembling)
- -oma (tumor)
- -osis (abnormal condition)
- -ous (pertaining to)
- -pathy (disease)
- -penia (abnormal reduction in number)
- -pexy (surgical fixation, suspension)
- -phage (eat, swallow)
- -plasty (surgical repair)
- -poiesis (formation)
- -sclerosis (hardening)
- -stenosis (narrowing, constriction)
- -scope (instrument used to view)
- -scopy (process of viewing)
- -stasis (stop, stopping, controlling)
- -stenosis (narrowing, constriction)
- -tomy (cut into, incision)
Cardiovascular System – Blood Vessels and Blood Words
Cardiovascular System – Blood, medical terms (Text Version)
Practice the following cardiovascular system words by breaking into word