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Ch. 8
Treatments
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anticoagulant | drug that prevents the coagulation of blood |
| hemostatic | drug that stops the flow of blood |
| thrombolytic | drug that breaks down blood clots |
| laparosplenectomy | surgical removal of the spleen through the abdomen |
| lymphadenectomy | surgical removal of a lymph gland (node) |
| lymphadenotomy | incision into a lymph gland (node) |
| nephrosplenopexy | surgical fixation of the spleen and a kidney |
| splenectomy | surgical removal of the spleen |
| thymectomy | surgical removal of the thymus |
| tonsillectomy | surgical removal of a tonsil |
| apheresis | general term for a process, similar to dialysis, that draws out a patient's blood, removes something from it, then returns the rest of the blood to the patient's body |
| cytapheresis | aphaeresis to remove cellular material |
| plasmapheresis | aphaeresis to remove plasma |
| plateletpheresis | aphaeresis to remove platelets (for the purpose of donating them) |
| transfusion | infusion into a patient of blood from another source |