Chapter 1
Outpatient Facility versus hospital or bedridden setting.
Ambulatory Setting.
Bulti-in positive control used in qualitative tests to prove the device or test kit is working properly.
Internal control
Painful Urination
Dysuria
Depression area in front of the elbow.
Antecubital Space
Condition in which the red blood cell count or hemoglobin level is below normal.
Anemia
The clotting ability of blood
Coagulation
Test that simply looks for the presence or absence of a substance.
Qualitative test.
Structure in the renal corpuscle made up of tangled blood capillaries in which the hydrostatic pressure in the capillaries pushes substances through the capillary pores into the glomerular capsule.
Glomerulus
Narrow middle layer of white blood cells and platelets in a centrifuged whole blood specimen.
Buffy Coat
Platelets; cellular fragments that gather at the site of a damaged blood vessel and release clotting chemicals to form a clot.
Thrombocytes
Methods to protect workers by isolating or removing bloodborne pathogens from the workplace.
Engineering Controls
A statistical term describing the amount of variation from the mean in a dataset.
Standard Deviation
Rupture and disintegration of cells
Lyse
Tumor or swelling of blood in the tissues.
Hematoma
Immature red blood cells.
Erythroblasts
A body opening or break in the skin through which an infectious agent enters the body.
Portal of entry
A graph used to plot and visualize the results of control samples over time to ensure that test methods are consistently accurate.
Levey-Jennings Chart.
Blood reabsorption limit of a substance and the point at which the substance is then excreted in the urine.
Renal Threshold Level
All the fluid except blood that is found in the space between tissues; also referred to as tissue fluid.
Interstitial fluid
Antibodies that destroy or render harmless foreign invaders containing antigens.
Immunoglobulins
CDC recommendations for infection control within health care facilities to prevent transmission of disease through contact with blood, body fluids, or OPIMs
Standard Precautions
Proving laboratory competency by testing a sample specimen from an outside accreditation agency and obtaining the correct result.
Proficiency Testing Program
Urethral opening through which urine is expelled from the body.
Urethral Meatus
Tiny purple or red skin spots caused by small amounts of blood under the skin; found in patients with coagulation problems; the condition can lead to excessive bleeding during phlebotomy procedures.
Petechiae
Procedure for determining the percentage of the various types of leukocytes based on their staining characteristics, shapes, and sizes.
Differential Count