Core Lab
The 'Universal Donor' of Plasma.
What is AB?
The infiltration step allows this to completely permeate the tissues.
The fixative commonly used in Histology for tissue fixation.
What is formaldehyde/formalin?
What is a refrigerator?
In general, the first thing inoculated when planting specimens when necessary.
What is a direct smear/gram stain?
The acidic dye of the wrights stain.
What is Eosin?
The time in which pediatric tissue slides are stored for, in years.
What is 30?
The step in histology where tissues infiltrated with wax are set into larger wax blocks for cutting.
What is embedding?
The selective and differential plate used when inoculating urine specimens.
What is the MacConkey Agar/MAC Plate?
The technique used to handle specimens to ensure the specimen and environment are not cross contaminated.
What is aseptic technique?
This step involves placing a liquid media on a tissue section, and applying a coverslip.
What is Mounting?
Appears murky and white when contaminated with water.
What is Xylene?
The counter stain used in the gram stain.
What is safranin?
A nutrient added to plates that also makes the media differential through the use of hemolysis.
What is blood?
Patient diagnosis for a deficiency in clotting Factor 8.
What is Hemophilia A?
The step in tissue staining that involves putting specimen slides in decreasing concentrations of alcohol.
What is bringing to water?
The procedure available for physicians with patients in the operating room, allowing for rapid diagnosis.
What are frozen sections?
What is cryotomy?
In an autoclave, the action of steam condensing to a smaller volume, causing more steam to be drawn into items being sterilized.
What is penetration?
The carbohydrate added to MAC plates to make them differential?
What is Lactose?
The form in which carbon dioxide is primarily transported in the blood.
What are Bicarbonate ions?
This process uses nitric acid or EDTA to remove this from histology tissues.
What is Calcium?
The routine stain in cytology.
What is the Papanicolaou Stain?
The organism commonly used in autoclave quality control.
What is Geobacillus sterothermophilus?
What is a microaerophile?