Blood System 4 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Return to good health, signs and symptoms of disease are gone
Remission
Large platelet precursor cell found in bone marrow
Megakaryocyte
Pertaining to golfing of another cell or foreign organism to destroy it
Phagocyte
Drug treatment to break down clots that may abnormally form in blood vessels
Thrombolytic therapy
Lab test account, the numbers of platelets per cubic milliliter, or microliter of blood
Platelet count (plt)
Sliding or falling back as in a return of illness after apparent recovery
Relapse
Clotting
Coagul/o
Plasma proteins; consists of alpha, beta and gamma ( immune)
Globulin
Red dawn rosy
Eosin/o
Lab test to count the percentages of different types of WBC’s in blood
White blood cell differential (wbc diff)
Cell
Cyt/o
Phagocytic WBC; involved in allergies and parasitic infections; red staining granules
Eosinophils
Blood
Hem/o, hemat/o
Inflammation of bone and bone marrow
Osteomyelitis
Bone marrow cell that gives rise to ALL types of blood cells
Hematopoietic stem cell
Small pinpoint hemorrhages under the skin
Petechia
Immature or embryonic cell
Blast
Tendency of an organism to return to a state of constancy and stability
Homeostasis
White
Leuk/o
Separation of blood into components parts and removal of a selected parts from the blood
Apheresis
Lab test to measure the total amount of haemoglobin and a sample of blood
Hemoglobin test ( H,Hg,HGB)
Abnormal condition; increase of blood cells
Osis
Substance that prevents blood from from clotting, I,e., heparin, warfarin (Coumadin)
Anticoagulant
Shape or form
Morph/o
