Hematology

Hematology

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

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Vitamin k

Health care; Hematology

A vitamin constituent of the normal diet requiring bile salts for absorption. The liver in the production of prothrombin utilises this vitamin.

Howell-jolly bodies

Health care; Hematology

Small basophilic particles sometimes found in erythrocytes, remnants of nuclear material.

Hypertrophy

Health care; Hematology

Enlargement of an organ or part due to increase in the size of the constituent cells.

Agranulocytosis

Health care; Hematology

Complete or nearly complete absence of the granular leukocytes from the blood and bone marrow.

Laeukemic leukaemia

Health care; Hematology

A fatal condition of the blood-forming tissues, characterised by marked proliferation of immature cells in the bone marrow, without their presence, in any great numbers, in the blood steam.

Aleukemic leukaemia

Health care; Hematology

A fatal condition of the blood-forming tissues, characterised by marked proliferation of immature cells in the bone marrow, without their presence, in any great numbers, in the blood steam.