The Best Questions and Correct
Solutions(Medical Terminology Volume
13 Blood System)
What is the term for the disease whose symptoms includes pallor,
... [Show More] shortness of breath,
infection, bleeding gums, predominance of immature and abnormally functioning
leukocytes, and low numbers of mature neutrophils in a young child? - CORRECT
ANSWER-A*cut*e lympho*cy*tic leu*ke*mia
What is the term for blood protein that maintains the proper proportion and
concentration of water in blood? - CORRECT ANSWER-*al*bumin
What is the term for deficiency in erythrocytes or hemoglobin? - CORRECT ANSWERa*ne*mia
What is the term for abnormal condition of unequal size of cells (erythrocytes)? -
CORRECT ANSWER-anisocy*to*sis
What is the term for an immunoglobulin produced by lymphocytes to combat specific
antigens? - CORRECT ANSWER-*an*tibody (Ab)
What is term for a substance that works against coagulation (blood clotting)? -
CORRECT ANSWER-antico*ag*ulant
What is the term for a foreign material that invades the body? - CORRECT ANSWER-
*an*tigen
What is the term for the test that determines the presence of antibodies in infants of Rhnegative women or patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia? - CORRECT
ANSWER-anti*glob*ulin test (Coombs test)
What is the term for separation of blood into component parts and removal of a select
portion from the blood? - CORRECT ANSWER-*a*phar*es*is
What is the suffix for removal or carrying away? - CORRECT ANSWER--apharesis
What is the term for separation of blood into its parts? - CORRECT ANSWERAphe*re*sis
What is the term for failure of blood cell production due to absence of formation of cells
in the bone marrow? - CORRECT ANSWER-a*plas*tic a*ne*mia
What is the term for blood that is collected from and later reinfused into the same
patient? - CORRECT ANSWER-au*tol*ogous trans*fu*sion
What is the combining form for basophil? - CORRECT ANSWER-bas/o
What is the term for a white blood cell with dark-staining granules that has an affinity for
basic dye, and is associated with release of histamine and heparin? - CORRECT
ANSWER-*ba*sophil
What is the term for a pigment produced from hemoglobin when red blood cells are
destroyed? - CORRECT ANSWER-*bil*irubin
What is the suffix for immature cell or embryonic? - CORRECT ANSWER--blast
What is the term for the time it takes for a small puncture wound to stop bleeding? -
CORRECT ANSWER-*ble*eding time
What is the term for whole blood, or cells, that are taken from a donor and infused into a
patient? - CORRECT ANSWER-blood trans*fu*sion
What is the term for a small amount of bone marrow that is aspirated and examined
under a microscope? - CORRECT ANSWER-bone *ma*rrow *bi*opsy
What is the combining form for color? - CORRECT ANSWER-chrom/o
What is the term for both mature and immature granulocytes that are present in bone
marrow and blood? - CORRECT ANSWER-*chro*nic mye*log*enous leu*ke*mia
What is the combining form for clotting? - CORRECT ANSWER-coagul/o
What is the term for blood clotting? - CORRECT ANSWER-coagu*la*tion
What is the term for the test in which venous blood is clotted in a test tube? -
CORRECT ANSWER-coagu*la*tion time
What is the term for the disease of the clotting process? - CORRECT ANSWERCoagu*lop*athy
What is the term for the protein that stimulates the growth and proliferation of white
blood cells (granulocytes)? - CORRECT ANSWER-*col*ony-*stim*ulating *fac*tor (CSF)
What is the term for the determination of numbers of blood cells, hemoglobin
concentration, hematocrit and red cell values? - CORRECT ANSWER-com*plet*e blood
count (CBC)
What is the combining form for cell? - CORRECT ANSWER-cyt/o
What is the term for the study of cells? - CORRECT ANSWER-cy*tol*ogy
What is the suffix for an abnormal condition of cells? - CORRECT ANSWER--cytosis
What is the term for a change in structure and function of a cell as it matures? -
CORRECT ANSWER-differenti*a*tion
What is the term for any abnormal or pathologic condition of the blood? - CORRECT
ANSWER-dys*cra*sia
What is the term for swelling or fluid leaks out into tissue spaces? - CORRECT
ANSWER-ed*e*ma
What is the term for a separation of proteins in a solution by using an electric current
(used to separate protein fractions of serum, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid)? - CORRECT
ANSWER-electropho*re*sis
What is the suffix for blood condition? - CORRECT ANSWER--emia
What is the combining form for red, dawn, rosy? - CORRECT ANSWER-eosin/o
What is the term for a white blood cell with dark-staining granules that have an affinity
for acid dyes; reddish granules, numbers increase in allergic reactions? - CORRECT
ANSWER-eo*sin*ophil
What is the term for an increase in numbers of eosinophils? - CORRECT ANSWEReosino*phi*lia
What is the combining form for red? - CORRECT ANSWER-erythr/o
What is the term for an immature red blood cell? - CORRECT ANSWER-er*yth*roblast
What is the term for a red blood cell? - CORRECT ANSWER-e*ryth*rocyte
What is the term for a test in which anticoagulant is added to a venous blood sample
and the distance cells fall in the test tube over time is determined? - CORRECT
ANSWER-e*ryth*rocyte sedimen*ta*tion rate (ESR or sed rate)
What is the term for a formation of erythrocytes? - CORRECT ANSWERe*ryth*ropoi*e*sis
What is the term for a hormone secreted by the kidneys that stimulates red blood cell
formation? - CORRECT ANSWER-er*ythr*o*poi*etin (EPO) [Show Less]