cont ch.9 med term Word Scramble
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anemia | a condition in which is a decrease in hemoglobin in the blood to levels below the normal range, resulting in a deficiency of oxygen being delivered to the cells |
anemia, aplastic | called bone marrow; characterized by pancytopenia- an inadequacy of the formed by blood elements |
anemia, hemoltic | characterized by the extreme reduction in circlating RBC'S due to their destruction |
anemia, iron deficiency | characterized by deficiency of hemoglobin level due to a lack in the body |
anemia, pernicious | results from a deficiency of mature RBCs and the formation and circulation of metalbasts with marked poililocytosis and anisoscytosis |
anemia, stickle cell | is a chronic hereditary form of hemoltic anemia in which the RBCs become like a cresent in the presence of low oyygen concentration |
granulocytosis | is an abnormally elevated number of granulocytes in the circulating blood as a reaction to any varitey of inflammation or infection |
hemochromatosis | is a rare iron metabolism disease characterized by iron deposits throughout the body, ususally as a complication of one of the hemolytic anemias |
hemophillia | involves different hereditary inadequacies of cogulation factors resulting inprolonged bleeding times |
leukemia(ALL, AML,CML) | is an excessive uncontrolled increase of immature WBCs in the blood eventually leadin to infection, aneima and thrombcytopenia |
muliplte myeloma (plasma cell myelona) | a maligant plasma cell neoplasm |
polycythemia vera | is an abnomral increase in the number of RBCs, granuloicytes and thrombucytes- leading to increae in blood volume and viscorty |
purpura | is a collection of blood beneath the skin in the form of pinpoint hemorraghes apperaing as red-purple skin discolorations |
ARC | related complex |
AIDS | acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
CDC | centers for disease control and prevention |
cmv | cytomgealovrius |
ebv | epstein-barr virus |
elisa | enyzeme-linked immunosorbent assay |
histo | histology |
hiv | human immunodeficiency virus |
hsv | herpes simplex virus |
itp | idipoathic thrombocytopenic purpura |
ks | kaposi's sacroma |
sle | systemic lupus erythematosus |
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