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| physician specializing in the treatment of disease associated with blood |
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| condition of without equal cells |
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| sign that is presence of RBCs of unequal size in a sample of blood |
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| sign of an infection that is the presence of bacteria in a sample of blood |
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| condition of bacteria in the blood |
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erythropenia,
erythrocytopenia |
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| abnormally reduced number of RBCs in a sample of blood |
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| abnormal loss of blood from the circulation |
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leukopenia,
leukocytopenia |
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| abnormally reduced sign of WBCs in a sample of blood |
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| presence of abnormally large RBCs in a sample of blood |
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| presence of tear-shaped RBCs in a sample of blood |
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| condition of irregular cell |
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| abnormal increase in the number of RBCs in the blood |
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| abnormal enlargement of the spleen |
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thrombopenia,
thrombocytopenia |
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| abnormally reduced number of platelets in a sample of blood |
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| presence of toxins in the blood |
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| disease that causes loss of immune function which allows opportunistic diseases to proliferate |
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| human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) |
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| body's immune response to allergens |
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| foreign substances that produce a reaction including immediate inflammation |
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| allergic rhinitis (hay fever) |
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| allergy: affects the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity and throat |
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| allergy: affects the skin where it has been in physical contact with the allergen |
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| immediate reaction to a foreign substance that includes rapid inflammation, vasodilation, brochospasms, and spasms of the GI tract |
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| reduced ability of RBCs to deliver oxygen to tissues |
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| anemia: red bone marrow fails to produce sufficient numbers of normal blood cells |
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| anemia: caused by a lack of available iron, resulting in the body's inability to make adequate amounts of hemoglobin |
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| anemia: hemoglobin is defective within cells, resulting in misshaped RBCs that cause obstructions in blood vessels |
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| anemia: caused by a failure to acquire vitamin B12 into the bloodstream for its delivery to red bone marrow, which requires it in order to produce new RBCs |
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| application of disease-causing microorganisms to cause harm to a population |
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| infection causing blackening effect on skin and lungs |
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| bacterial disease that has been threatened to be used in bioterrorism |
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| disease that is caused by a person's own immune response attacking otherwise health tissues |
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| disease that means self-exempt or self-immunity |
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| lethal form of food-borne illness |
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| caused by the ingestion of food contaminated with the neurotoxin produced by the bacterium clostridium botulinum |
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| usually occurs when canned food is not prepared properly and is often fatal due to the extreme toxic nature of the bacteria |
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| infectious disease resulting in acute inflammation of the mucous membrane, primarily in the mouth and throat |
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| characterized by the formation of an obstructive, leatherlike membrane in the throat |
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| any abnormal condition of the blood |
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| inflammation that is caused by the leakage of fluid from the bloodstream in to the interstitial space b/t body cells causing swelling |
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fungemia,
fungal septicemia |
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| fungal infection that spreads throughout the body by way of bloodstream |
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fungemia,
fungal septicemia |
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| condition of blood fungus |
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| infection of a wound caused by various anaerobic bacteria, which causes additional damage to local tissues when blood flow is reduced due to some reason |
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| in gas gangrene ______ is released as a diagnostic of the disease |
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| mass of blood outside blood vessels, confined within an organ or space within the body, usually in clotted form |
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| general term for a disease that affects hemoglobin within red blood cells |
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| inherited bleeding disorder that results from defective or missing blood-clotting proteins that are necessary components in the coagulation process |
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| a person suffering from this experiences an abnormal loss of blood |
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| infectious disease that causes internal bleeding, or internal hemorrhage and high fevers |
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Hodgkin's disease,
Hodgkin's lymphoma
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| malignant form of cancer of lymphatic tissue that is characterized by the progressive enlargement of lymph nodes, fatigue, and deficiency of the immune response |
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| condition that is caused by a medical treatment |
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| disease that develops without a known or apparent cause |
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| pertaining to individual disease |
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| condition resulting from a defective immune response |
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| occurs when there are insufficient numbers of functional WBCs, especially lymphocytes, available to defend that body from sources of infection |
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| a patient suffering from an immunodeficiency |
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| suppressed status of the immune response that results from disease or the use chemicals, pharmacological, or immunologic agents |
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| combo of two blood types that result in the destruction of RBCs |
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| multiplication of disease-causing microorganisms in the body |
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| disease caused by an infection |
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| physiological process that serves as the body's initial response to injury and many forms of illness that involves swelling of body tissue |
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| common symptoms include swelling, redness, heat, pain |
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| viral disease characterized by fever and an acute inflammation of respiratory mucous membranes |
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| cancer meaning a condition of white blood cells |
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| cancer arising from cells within the blood-forming tissue of the red bone marrow |
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| inflammation of the lymph nodes |
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| malignant tumor originating in lymphatic tissue |
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| disease caused by a parasitic protozoan that infects RBCs and the liver during different parts of its life cycle |
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| carrier of an infectious protozoan is the anopheles mosquito |
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| acute viral disease that often begins as a fever, followed by the development of a skin rash containing numerous vesicles and often accompanied by a general inflammation of the respiratory tract |
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| clinical synonym of measles |
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mononucleosis,
infectious mononucleosis |
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| viral disease characterized by enlarged lymph nodes and spleen, atypical lymphocytes, throat pain, pharyngitis, fever, and fatigue |
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| caused by the Epstein-Barr virus |
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| death of one or more cells or a portion of a tissue or organ |
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| a cell or cells, tissue, or organ that is dead is often called ______ |
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| infectious disease that is contracted during a hospital stay |
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| most common cause of _____ in recent years has been a lack of hand washing made worse by the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of staph |
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| infectious disease that is widespread and causes extensive mortality |
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| caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is characterized by high fever, skin eruptions, and discoloration, internal hemorrhage, and pneumonia transmitted by the bite of a flea |
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| viral infection that is spread from the saliva of an infected animal, usually by way of a bite |
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| virus works on CNS to cause paranoia and paralysis and is usually fatal |
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| rabies has also been called _____ because of this that appears during the stage of mental deterioration |
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| systemwide disease caused by the presence of bacteria and their toxins in circulating blood |
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| condition of putrefying blood |
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| septicemia is also known as ____ |
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| person suffering from septicemia |
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| viral disease caused by the variola virus that was the scourge of the human population prior to its eradication in 1975 |
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| characterized by the formation of large pustules on the skin that exceeded that pustules of smallpox in size and number |
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| presence of the bacterium staphylococcus in the blood |
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| common name of an infection caused by staphylococcus |
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| most common cause of food-borne illness, skin inflammation, osteomyelitis, and nosocomial infections |
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| methicillin-resistant staph (MRSA) |
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| varieties of staph that are resistant to antibiotics |
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| presence of bacterium Streptococcus in the blood |
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| infection caused by streptococcus bacteria |
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| frequently begins in the throat as a form of pharyngitis or in the mouth following a dental procedure, and if not managed may spread to the bloodstream |
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| disease caused by a powerful neurotoxin released by the common bacterium Clostridium tetani |
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| toxin that acts on the CNS to cause convulsions and spastic paralysis |
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| tumor originating in the thymus gland |
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| therapeutic treatment involving the use of a substance with known toxicity to bacteria |
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| chemical agent that delays or prevents the clotting process in blood |
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| most common anticoagulant agent |
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| pharmacological therapy that is useful in battling a class of viruses that tend to mutate quickly |
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| process in which pathogens are rendered less virulent prior to their incorporation into a vaccine preparation |
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| transfusion of blood donated by a patient for their personal use |
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| pertaining to study of self |
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| common procedure before a surgery to avoid potential incompatibility or contamination of blood |
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| test or series of tests on a sample of plasma to measure that levels of its composition, including glucose, albumin, triglycerides, pH, cholesterol, and electrolytes |
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| clinical test to determine infection in the blood |
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| intro of blood, blood products, or a blood substitute into a patient's circulation to restore blood volume to normal levels |
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autologous transfusion,
homologous transfusion |
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| two main type of blood transfusions |
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| common procedure to treat leukemia or injury resulting from radiation therapy or chemotherapy |
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| timed blood test to determine the time required for a blood clot to form |
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| coagulation time test: measures the time required for prothrombin to form thrombin |
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| partial thromboplastin time (PTT) |
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| coagulation time test: used to evaluate clotting ability |
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| completed blood count (CBC) |
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| common lab test that evaluates a sample of blood to provide diagnostic info about a patient's genral health |
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| complete blood count (CBC) |
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| includes several more specific tests, including hematocrit, hemoglobin, red blood count, and white blood count |
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| microscopic count of the number of each type of white blood cell in a sample of blood |
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| procedure included in a complete blood count that measures the percentage of RBCs in a volume of blood |
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| obtained by centrifuging a sample of blood to separate the cells from plasma in the centrifuge tube |
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| general field of medicine focusing on blood-related disease |
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| procedure included in a complete blood count that measures the level of hemoglobin in RBCs |
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| transfusion of blood that is voluntarily donated by another person |
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| homologous transfusion involves this to prevent incompatibility |
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| treatment that establishes immunity against a particular foreign substance that may otherwise cause disease |
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| science concerned with immunity and allergy |
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| treatment of infectious disease by the administration of pharmacological agents |
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| the surgical removal of one or more lymph nodes |
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| laboratory procedure that calculates the number of platelets in a known volume of blood |
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| any treatment that tends to prevent the onset of an infection or other type of disease |
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| a lab test included in a complete blood count that measures the number of RBCs within a given volume of blood |
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| surgical removal of the spleen |
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| treatment that is performed to dissolve an unwanted blood clot |
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| inoculation of a foreign substance that has reduced virulence or a reduced ability to cause infection, as a means of providing a cure or prophylaxis |
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| preparation that is used to activate an immune response to provide acquired immunity against an infectious agent |
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abbrev:
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
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abbrev:
complete blood count |
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abbrev:
human immunodeficiency virus |
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abbrev:
methicillin-resistant Staph |
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abbrev:
partial thromboplastin time |
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abbrev:
red blood cell, red blood count |
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abbrev:
white blood cell, white blood count |
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