Hematology
This evaluates individual cell numbers in circulation to evaluate overall health.
What is a complete blood count (CBC)?
Staining of urine sedimentation improves the visual aspect of this.
What is cellular matter?
Some common collection technique for a cytological examination are these methods.
What are impression smear technique, fine Needle Aspirate, swab technique.
Dermatophytosis (Ringworm) is transmitted to humans in this way.
What is direct contact?
This is the easiest way to tell sucking lice from biting lice.
What are the shape of their head and mouth parts?
The major function of a RBC.
What is is to carry oxygen to the tissues?
The veterinarian wishes to culture a sample of urine from a dog. This is the type of sample we need.
What is a cystocentesis?
A histology always yields enough information for this.
What is a definitive diagnosis?
A living organism of microscopic proportions.
What is a microorganism?
That parasite that can cause blindness and internal organ damage in humans.
What are Roundworms (Toxocara)?
Measurement of plasma/serum proteins obtained on a chemistry panel.
What is TS/TP?
This is the minimum amount of urine that should be obtained to run a full UA.
What is 3cc?
This type of sample needs to be heat fixed prior to staining.
What is an ear cytology?
Formalin needs to penetrate the entire tissue within this amount of time.
What is 24 hours?
This is the sampling collection method for demodex.
What is skin scraping into dermal follicles?
Hemolysis of a blood sample means this.
What is red blood cells have broken down and spilled hemoglobin into the sample, rendering most blood chemistry tests inaccurate.
Supernatant refers to this.
What is the fluid poured off the sample after centrifugation?
Microscopic study of tissues from the body.
What is histopathology?
When collecting culture specimens aseptically, you trying to avoid this in your sample.
What is contaminants?
Fleas can be identified by this method.
A chemistry machine runs profiles that check this function while a hematology machine runs this.
What is organ function and a complete blood count?
A specific gravity tells the veterinarian this about the body.
What is both the concentration of the urine and the kidney function of the pet.
Using a needle and syringe to take a small sample of cells for evaluation.
What is a FNA?
After an 18-24 hour incubation time of a bacterial culture, there is no growth. What should your next step be.
What is continue incubation for another 18-24 hours?
This is the common vector for canine heartworm.
What is the mosquito?