Hematology

Hematology

The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.

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Xanthochromia

Health care; Hematology

A yellowish discoloration, usually associated with spinal fluid.

Band form

Health care; Hematology

In the Schilling classification, a neutrophil with the nucleus unsegmented and ribbonlike; also stab, staff, nonfilamented.

Basket cell

Health care; Hematology

A degenerated primitive cell which has ruptured and in which the cell nucleus appears as a pale staining smear without prescribed form or shape.

Basophil

Health care; Hematology

A granular leukocyte, the granules of which have affinities for the basic dye of Wright stain (methylene blue). The granules are large, irregular and blue-black in color.

Asynchronous

Health care; Hematology

Uncoordinated development as in abnormal cell development.

Basophilic

Health care; Hematology

Staining readily with basic dyes, for example, blue with Ramanovsky type stains.

Azurophilic granule

Health care; Hematology

Rounded, discrete, reddish-purple granule, smaller than the granules of neutrophils; 1-10 are common in lymphocytes, and they are very numerous, and smaller, in the cytoplasm of monocytes