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Leukocytes 1 and 2
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 1
01/29/2013

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What do we use nowadays for manual cell counting?
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Hemocytometer
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how many counting chambers are there in a hemocytometer?
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2
Term
how many primary squares are there in a hemocytometer?
Definition
9
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what is a field?
Definition
everything you see in the circle when looking through a microscope when it is still
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What is leukemia?
Definition
Cancer of blood cells. Neoplastic cells in blood or bone marrow
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What is a left shift?
Definition
increase in immature cells (bands)
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What is regenerative left shift?
Definition
leukocytosis. Still more segs than bands
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What is a degenerative left shift?
Definition
When bands are equal to or more than segs in number.
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Where are granulocytes produced?
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In the bone marrow
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What are granulocytes involved in?
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Inflammatory reactions
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which granulocytes are considered the first line of defense?
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Neutrophils
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