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Hematology
The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.
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Pernicious anaemia
Health care; Hematology
A chronic, macrocytic anaemia caused by a defect in production of “intrinsic factor” by the stomach. There is accompanying megaloblastic erythropoiesis, poikilocytosis, granulocytic ...
Oxyhemoglobin
Health care; Hematology
The bright red haemoglobin that is loosely combined with oxygen and found in arterial blood.
Nucleolus
Health care; Hematology
An intranuclear pale blue body, surrounded: by a dense condensation of chromatin.
Occult blood
Health care; Hematology
The presence of blood that cannot be detected except by special chemical tests.
Pancytopenia
Health care; Hematology
A reduction in all three formed elements of the blood, namely, the erythrocytes, leukocytes and thrombocytes.
Pathologic increase (or decrease)
Health care; Hematology
Due to abnormal function or disease, as contrasted to physiological (due to normal body function).
Nrbc
Health care; Hematology
Nucleated red cell, usually a metarubricyte when seen in the peripheral blood smear.
