WBCs
RBCs
Platelets
Blood Tubes
Terminology
100
Segmented Neutrophil or PMN
What is the most common WBC in mammal blood (except for ruminants)?
100
Erythrocyte
What is another name for a RBC?
100
Thrombocytes
What is another name for platelets?
100
Red Top
What color tube would you use to collect serum in?
100
The study of blood and blood forming tissue.
What is Hematology
200
Protection from pathogens
What is the primary function of WBCs?
200
Packed Cell Volume
What laboratory test measures the RBC volume of blood?
200
Lavender Top
What color tube would you use to perform a WBC differential?
200
Hematopoiesis
What is the process of blood cell formation and development?
300
Granulocytes and Agranulocytes
What are the two categories of WBCs?
300
Central Pallor
What is the lighter staining middle of the RBC?
300
Clotting, preserve capillary walls & transport substances for clotting, constriction and dilation of vessels.
What is the three functions of platelets
300
Green Top
What color tube would you most commonly use to collect blood for a chemistry on our in house analyzer.
300
Plasma
What is the liquid portion of anticoagulated blood?
400
nRBC
What is another name for a Metarubricyte
400
Thrombocytopenia
What is decreased number of platelets?
400
EDTA
What is the anticoagulant in a LTT/PTT?
400
Morphology
What is the study of shape and form?
500
Eosinophil
What is the type of WBC that will increase in numbers with infection?
500
Hemoglobin
What is the major functional component of RBCs?
500
Von Willebrandt's Dz
What is an inherited blood coagulation disorder characterized by a deficiency in plasma factor vWD?
500
Heparin
What is the anticoagulant in a GTT?
500
Anisocytosis
What is variation in or of unequal size?
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