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| red cell (red blood cell) |
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| cell (containing) granules (in the cytoplasm) |
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white blood condition
leukemia causes a profoundly elevated white blood cell count and a very low red blood cell count |
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| relating to the origin in bone marrow |
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| cell that eats (foriegn material) |
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| abnormal condition of a blood clot |
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| abnormal condition; increase (used primarily with blood cells) |
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| abnormal increase in white (blood) cells |
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| abnormal decrease in red (blood cells) |
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most common world-wide
caused by a greater demand on stored iron than can be supplied, commonly as a result of inadequate dietary iron intake or malabsorption of iron |
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most common in african-americans
RBC's are cresent shaped, preventing cells from entering capillaries and resulting in severe pain and internal bleeding
caused by a defect in the gene responsible for hemoglobin synthesis |
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| accumulation of serous fluid in the peritoneal or pleural cavity |
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| presence of viable bacteria circulating in the bloodstream usually transient in nature |
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| localized accumulation of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space or tissue due to a break in or severing of a blood vessel |
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| destruction of rbc's with a release of hemoglobin that diffuses into the surrounding fluid |
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| arrest of bleeding or circulation |
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| state of being protected against infectious diseases |
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| immunity produced by the person's own immune system |
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| immunity in which antibodies or other immune substances formed in one individual are transferred to another individual to provide immediate, temporary immunity |
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| serious, life-threatening bloodstream infection that may arise from other infections throughout the body, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infection, meningitis or infections of the bone or gi tract; also called blood infection or blood poisoning |
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| labrotory test to detect the presence of antibodies, antigens or immune substances |
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| blood test that measures the amount of antibodies in blood; commonly used as an indicator of immune status |
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| test to determine the presence of pathogens in the bloodstream |
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| complete blood count (cbc) |
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| series of tests that includes hemoglobin; hematocrit; rbc, wbc and platelet counts; defferential wbc count; rbc indices; and rbc and wbc morphology |
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| differential count (diff) |
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| test that enumerates the distribution of wbcs in a stained blood smear by counting the different kinds of wbcs and reporting each as a percentage of the total examined |
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| erythrocyte sedimentation rate (esr) |
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| measurement of the distance rbcs settle to the bottom of a test tube under standardized condition |
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| hemoglobin (Hgb, Hg) value |
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| measurement of the amount of hemoglobin found in a whole blood sample |
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| measurement of the percentage of rbcs in a whole blood sample |
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| test that measures the time it takes for the plasma portion of the blood to clot. it is used to evaluate portions of the coagulation system |
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| partial thromboplastin time (PTT) |
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| test that measures the length of time it takes blood to clot. it screens for deficincies of some clotting factors and monitors the effectiveness of anticoagulant (heparin) therapy; also calles activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) |
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| red blood cell (RBC, rbc) indices |
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| mathematical calculation of the size, volume and concentration of hemoglobin for an rbc |
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