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blood vocabulary
vocabulary words
Question | Answer |
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Wright's stain | commonly used blood stain |
reticulocyte | immature RBC |
hemolysis | destruction of RBC release of Hgb |
heparin | anticoagulant |
thrombocytopenia | deficiency of platelets |
phagocytosis | engulfing of foreign particals EC:pac-man |
anaphylactic reaction | severe allergic reaction EC: epinephrine |
leukemia | malignent overgrowth of WBC |
splenomegaly | enlarment of spleen |
anemia | deficiency of iron in blood EC: Hgb |
leukopenia | deficiency of WBC |
band cell | immature neutrophil EC: granulocyte |
corpuscle | small mass or body |
antihistamine | drug that counteracts effect of histamine/ used to treat allergic reaction EC: benadryl |
ESR | erythrocyte sedimentation rate EC: blood test for inflammation |
BT | bleeding time |
CBC | complete blood count EC: RBC, WBC, platelets, defferential |
lytes | electrolytes EC: sodium, potassium, chloride |
crit | hematocrit EC: Hct |