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symptoms of disease
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a thrombus that is moving through the blood stream until it encounters a narrow artery and blocks it. | embolism |
| symptoms: lethargy, shortness of breath, pallor, palpitations | anemia |
| excess of RBCs that increase blood viscosity. symptoms: increase in itching and pain in toes and fingers, night sweats, and weight loss. Platelet abnormalities can cause embolisms and hemorrhage in blood vessels | polycythemia |
| Increase in abnormal leukocyte number and decrease in erythrocytes and platelets. Lots of WBC’s that don’t do anything. Results in anemia and bleeding, recurring infections | Leukemia |