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blood vocabulary
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |