Prefixes, Stems, and Suffixes Used in the Formation of Hematologic Words
Prefix, Stem, Prefix, Stem,
or Suffix Meaning or Suffix Meaning
a or an without/lack meniscus crescent
aniso unequal meta after anti against micro small ante before mono one/single auto self morpho form/structure/appearance baso basic/alkaline blue dye multi many bi or di two myelo marrow bili bile neo new blast germ/immature cell neutro neutral chromo color oid resembling/from coagulo clotting ology study crena wrinkled oma tumor crit separate ortho normal cryo cold osis increase cyte or cyto cell pan all dys difficult/abnormal para next to emia blood patho or opathy disease eosin dawn/acidic orge-red dye penia poverty/decrease in cell # erythro red phago to eat globin globe/protein phil or phile love of granulo granule/granular philia increase in cell # hem or hemat blood plasia formation/growth hyper greater/increased poiesis making/cell growth hypo lesser/decreased poikilo variation/irregular intra within poly many iso same/equal post after itis inflammation pre or pro before karyo nut/nucleus pykno dense leuk white reticulo netlike lympho clear rubri red lysis dissolve/break up sidero or ferr iron macro large sphero round mega or megalo large/giant thrombo clot