Pathologies 1
Define Leukemia
What is cancer of the white blood cells/erythrocytes.
Define Red Blood Cell Count (RBC)
Hem/o & Hemat/o
What is pertaining to blood.
What is the role of the Spleen?
What is blood cells production and storage.
What is Erythr/o
What is red.
A chronic condition that occurs when the body cannot absorb vitamin B12 properly.
What is Pernicious Anemia.
What test/procedure measures the amount of White Blood Cells in the body.
What is White Blood Cell Count/White Blood Cell Differential.
Phleb/o
What is pertaining to veins/blood.
What is the transfusion of blood from one donor to recipient.
What is a Blood Transfusion.
What are Leukocytes
What are White Blood Cells.
A condition that happens when your bone marrow stops making enough new blood cells.
What is Aplastic Anemia.
Define Red Blood Cell Morphology
What is the evaluation of red blood cell size, shape, color, and distribution.
Arteri/o
What is pertaining to arteries.
What pathology is characterized by multiple pinpoint hemorrhages and accumulation of blood under the skin.
What is Purpura.
Define Sickle Cell Anemia
Hereditary condition characterized by abnormal sickle shape of erythrocytes and by hemolysis.
A condition where blood cells are destroyed in the body faster than they are being produced.
What is Hemolytic Anemia.
Define Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
What is a test evaluating the rate of separation in a chemical mixture.
-Emia
What is pertaining to a blood condition.
Define Hemophilia
What is a condition where blood cannot clot due to the lack of certain properties in the blood such as platelets.
Define Apheresis.
What is separation of blood into component parts and removal of a select portion of blood.
Define Thalassemia
What is an inherited blood disorder where the body produces less hemoglobin than normal, leading to anemia.
Define Coagulation Time
Thromb/o
What is pertaining to blood clots.
Describe the function of Hemoglobin
What is a protein that binds to oxygen.
Define Red Blood Cell Morphology
Evaluation of the shape, size and other abnormalities with red blood cells.