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| supplies body tissues with oxygen, nutrients, and various chemicals; transports waste products to various organs for removal from th ebody. |
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| medical term for formation of blood |
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| common term for collecting blood sample |
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| substance that prevents clotting of blood |
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| ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid - a type of anticoagulant found in blood tubes |
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| anticoagulant found in blood tubes and used as medicine |
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| process of clotting; sometimes coagulation is desired after blood is placed in a collection tube as a layer of leukocytes and thrombocytes form (called the buffy coat) between layers of erythrocytes and plasma |
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| layer of thrombocytes and leukocytes between erythrocytes and plasma after blood coagulation |
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| normal blood volume of an animal |
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| approximately 9% of an animal's body weight is blood |
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| blood is about 55% liquid, and 45% cellular material |
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| liquid portion of blood with clotting proteins removed |
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| straw-colored fluid portion of blood tha ttransports nutrients, hormones, and waste products. Plasma has clotting proteins in it. |
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| clotting protein found in plasma |
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| combining form means fibrin or threads of a clot |
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| clotting protein found in plasma |
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| type of lipid that circulate in blood |
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| type of lipid that circulate in blood |
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| mature red blood cell (oxygen-carrying cell) and is abbreviated RBC ; produced in bone marrow |
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| blood protein, found in the concavity on an erythrocyte, that transports oxygen |
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| nonprotein, iron-containing portion of hemoglobin |
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| combining form for bone marrow (and spinal cord) |
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| an immature, non-nucleated erythrocyte characterized by polychromasia (wright's stain) or a mesh-like pattern of threads (new methylene blue stain) |
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| large cell that destroys by eating |
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| a cell that "eats"; a leukocyte that ingests foreign material |
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| white blood cell- abbreviated WBC; produced in bone marrow (and other places) and function primarily in fighting disease in the body |
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| production of white blood cells |
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| cell that contains prominent grain-like structures in its cytoplasm |
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| cell that does not contain prominent grain-like structures in cytoplasm |
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| banded neutrophil is an immature polymorphonuclear leukocyte |
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| stained readily with basic, or blue, dyes in many comonly used stains such as hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), Giemsa, and Wright's |
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| stained readily with acidic or pink, dyes in many commonly used stains such as H&E, Giemsa, and Wright's |
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| large nucleated cell found in the bone marrow from which platelets are formed. |
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| a blood specimen for microscopic examination in which blood is spread thinly across a microscope slide and typically stained |
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| a sample of bone marrow obtained by needle aspiration for examination of cells; samples are taken from long bones, ribs, or the sternum |
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| blood condition of less than normal levels of red blood cells or hemoglobin |
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| any abnormal condition of the blood |
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| accumulation of fluid in the intercellular space |
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| abnormal increase in red blood cells |
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| means condition of cell but implies elevated cell numbers |
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| material that has escaped from blood vessels and is high in protein, cells, or solid materials derived from cells |
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| removing and destroying red blood cells |
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| excessive RBC destruction, resulting in lower than normal levels of RBC's |
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| breaking down of blood cells |
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| herditary conditon of deficient blood coagulation |
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| loss of blood (usually in a short period of time) |
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| act of controlling bloodor bleeding |
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| an instrument to control bleeding |
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| blood condition of abnormally high albumin levels |
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| excess blood in a part; engorgement |
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| blood condition of abnormally high fat levels; more accurately means abnormally high fat levels caused by fat metabolism |
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| common term for an alteration in the distrubtion of leukocytes in which thre are increases in band forms, usually in response to bacterial infection |
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| elevation in the number of malignant white blood cells |
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| elevation in the number of whit blood cells |
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| deficiency of white blood cells; sometimes called leukocytopenia |
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| excessive amount of fats in the blood |
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| fats from blood that have settled in the serum; clinically the serum appears cloudy and white |
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| elevated numbers of lymphocytes in the blood |
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| deficiency of lymphocytes in the blood |
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| deficiency of lymphocytes in the blood |
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| deficiency of monocytes in the blood |
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| elevated numbers of monocytes in the blood |
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| decreased number of neutrophilic leukocytes in the blood |
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| deficiency in all types of blood cells |
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| condition of engulfing or eating cells |
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| condition of many cells; clinically means excessive erythrocytes |
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| blood condition in which pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria) and their toxins are present. |
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| blood condition in which bacteria are present |
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| abnormal decrease in the number of clotting cells |
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| less than normal or deficiency |
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| elevation in the number of clotting cells |
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| material that has passed through a membrane and is high in fluidity and low in protein, cells, or solid materials derived from cells |
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