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The clumpting of cells as a result of interaction with specific antibodies called agglutinins.
Agglutinins are used in blood typing and in identifiying or estimating the strength of immunoglobulins or immune serums
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A plasma protein. Various albumins are found in practically all animal tissues and in many plant tissues. In blood, albumin helps maintain blood volume and blood pressure
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A substance that can produce a hypersensitive reaction in teh body
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An exaggerated, life-threatening hypersensitivity reaction to a preveiously encountered antigen
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An abnormal condition of the blood characterized by red blood cells of variable and abnormal size
(an-ih-soh-sigh-TOH-sis) |
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| Substances produced by the body in response to bacteria, viruses, or other foreign substances. Each class of antibody is named for its action. |
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| A substance, usually a protein, that causes the formation of an antibody and reacts specifically with that antibody |
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An abnormal intraperitoneal (within the peritoneal cavity) accumulation of a fluid containing large amoutns of proteins and electrolytes
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A granulocytic white blood cell characterized by cytoplasmic granules that stain blue when exposed to a basic dye.
Basophils represent 1% or less of the total white blood cell count.
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The orange-yellow pigment of bile formed principally by the breakdown of hemoglobin in red blood cells after termination of their normal life span.
(bill-ih-ROO-bin) |
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| The process of transforming a liquid into a solid, especially of the blood |
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Any cell of the body; a red or white blood cell
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An abnormal condition of the blood or bone marrow,
such as leukemia, aplastic anemia, or prenatal Rh incompatibility
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The abnormal accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces of tissues
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| The movement of charged suspended particles through a liquid medium in response to charnges in an electric field. Charged particles of a given substance migrate in a predictable direction and at a characteristic speed |
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| A granulocytic, bilobed leukocyte somewhat larger than a neutrophile characterize by large numbers of coarse, refractile, cytoplasmic granules that stain with the acid dye eosin |
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An abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells
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| An immature red blood cell |
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The process of red blood cell production
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| A hormone synthesized mainly in the kidneys and released into the bloodstream in response to anoxia (lack of oxygen). The hormone acts to stimulate and regulate the production of erythrocytes and is thus able to increase the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood |
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| A stringy, insoluble protein that is the substance of a blood clot |
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| a plasma protein convered into fibrin by thrombin in the presence of calcium ions |
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A group of four globulin protein molecules that become bound by the iron in heme molecules to form hemoglobin
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| A plasma protein made int eh liver. Globulin helps in teh synthesis of antibodies |
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A type of leukocyte characterize by the presence of cytoplasmic granuels
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| A medical specialist in the field of hematology |
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the scientific study of blood and blood-forming tissues
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| A complex protein-iron compound in the blood that carries oxygen to the cells from the lungs and carbon dioxide away from the cells to the lungs |
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The breakdown of red blood cells and the release of hemoglobin that occurs normally at the end of the life span of a red cell |
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A loss of a large amount of blood in a short period of time, either externally or internally. Hemorrhage may be arterial, venous, or capillary
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The terminatin of bleeding by mechanical or chemical means or by the complex coagulation process of the body, consisting of vasoconstriction, platelet aggregation, and thrombin and fibrin synthesis.
(hee-moh-STAY-sis) |
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A naturally occurring anticlotting factor present in the body
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an increased level of albumin in the blood
(high-per-al-byoo-mih-NEE-mee-ah) |
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| greater than normal amounts of the bile pigment, bilirubin, in the blood |
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An excessive level of blood fats, usually caused by a lipoprotein lipase deficiency or a defect in the conversion of low-density lipoproteins to high-density lipoproteins; also called hyperlipidemia
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A white blood cell, one of the formed elements of the circulating blood system
(LOO-koh-sight) |
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an abnormal decrease in number of white blood cells to fewer than 5,000 cells per cubic millimter
(loo-koh-sigh-toh-PEE-nee-ah) |
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An extremely large bone marrow cell
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A large mononuclear leukocyte
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Of or pertaining to the bone marrow or the spinal cord
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A polymorphonuclear (multilobed nucleus) granular leukocyte that stains easily with neutral dyes
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A marked reduciton in the number of the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets
(pan-sigh-toh-PEE-nee-ah) |
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A craving to eat unusually substances (non-food substances), including but not limited to things such as clay, dirt, starch, chalk, glue, ice, and hair.
This appetite disorder occurs with some nutritional deficiency states such as iron deficiency anemia. It may also occur in pregnancy.
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The watery, straw-colored, fluid portion of the lymph and the blood in which the leukocytes, erythrocytes, and platelets are suspended.
(PLAZ-mah) |
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| A clotting cell; a thrombocyte |
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A plasma protein precursor of thrombin. It is synthesized in teh liver if adequate vitamin K is presnet
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An immature erythrocyte characterized by a meshlike pattern of threads adn particles at the former site of the nucleus
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Systemic infection in which pathogens are present in the circulating bloodstream, having spread from an infectin in any part of the body
(sep-tih-SEE-mee-ah) |
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A change in serologic tests from negative to positive as antibodies develop in reaction to an infection or vaccine
(see-roh-con-VER-zhun) |
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The branch of laboratory medicine that studies blood serum for evidence of infeciton by evaluatin gantigen-antibody reactions
(see-RALL-oh-jee) |
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Also called blood serum. The clear, thin, and skicky fluid portion of the blood that remains after coagulation. Serum contains no blood cells, platelets, or fibrinogen
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An abnormal enlargement of the spleen
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| A formative cell; a cell whose daughter cells may give rise to other cell types |
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| An enzyme formed from prothrombin, calcium, and thromboplastin in plasma during the clotting process. It causes fibrinogen to change to fibrin, which is essential in the formation of a clot. |
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| A clotting cell; a platelet |
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An abnormal hematologic condition in which the number of platelets is reducted
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A complex substance that initiates teh clotting process by converting prothrombin into thrombin in teh presence of calcium ion
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there is a decrease in hemoglobin in teh blood to levels below the normal range, resulting in a deficiency of oxygen being delevered to the cells
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