Blood System Terms

• Hematopoiesis is the process by which blood cells are produced.
• Erythropoietic tissue produces red blood cells (RBC).
• Coagul/o


  Clotting
• Cyt/o


  cell
• Erythr/o


  red
• Hem/o (haem/o) , hemat/o (haemat/o


  blood
• Leuk/o


  white
• Myel/o


  bone marrow
• Phag/o


  Eat, swallow
• Thrombo/o


  clot
• -blast


  immature or embryonic cell
• -cytosis


  condition of cells (usually an increase or abnormal)
• -emia


  blood condition
• -osis


  abnormal condition
• -penia


  deficiency
• -phange


  eat, swallow
• -poiesis

  formation
• Anticoagulant 


  One that opposes clotting

  A drug given to reduce blood clotting
• Cytology


  The study if cells

  Also can be a type of test- e.g. one used to diagnose cancer
• Erythroblast


  An immature red blood cell

  Developing in Bone marrow
• Haemolysis


  Breakdown of blood cells (RBC)
• Haematoma 


  A collection of blood outside a vessel - bruises - haematoma from small vessels
• acute myeloid leukaemia


  Severe condition of white blood cells derived from the bone marrow

  Type of cancer that affects blood and bone marrow- usually overproduction of immature leukocytes
• thrombocytopenia 


  Condition of low count of thrombocytes (platelets)
• Haematopoiesis

  Formation of blood cells (from stem cells)

  
• Phagocytosis


  Process by which phagocytes (eating cells) eat (engulf) a particle or microbe

  e.g. macrophage (big eater)