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33 Cards in this Set
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-emia |
In blood |
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Cytosis |
Increase of cells |
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Cytopenia |
Decrease of cells |
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Medullary |
Bone marrow |
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Opathy |
Disease |
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Megaly |
Enlarged |
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Myeloid |
White cell |
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Meta |
Change |
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Heme |
Blood |
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Philia |
Increase or love of |
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Intravascullar |
Inside vessel |
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Extravascular |
Outside of vessel |
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Hypo |
Decrease |
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Hyper |
Increase |
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Plasia |
Formation |
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Poly |
Many |
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Erythroid |
Red cell |
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Lysis |
Break up |
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Hematology |
Study of blood cell production, destruction, number, and disease |
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MCV |
Rbc size |
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MCH |
Weight of hgb in rbc |
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MCHC |
Average concentration of hgb in rbc |
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Reticuloendothelial system (RES) |
Involved in formation/destruction of cells, metabolism of iron, inflammation, immunity |
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Red marrow |
Hematopoietcally active marrow |
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Yellow marrow |
Hematopoietically inactive marrow composed mostly of fat cells |
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Lymph nodes |
Processes antigens and makes antibodies |
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Spleen |
Sort, alter, modify red cells |
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Hematopoiesis level 1 |
Multipotential stem cells |
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Hematopoiesis level 3 |
Precursor cells |
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Hematopoiesis level 4 |
Mature blood cells |
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Adult marrow:fat |
50:50 |
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Hematopoiesis level 2 |
Progenitor cells |
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Hematopoiesis level 5 |
Tissue cells |