unit 7 - Blood Exercise2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Abnormally low red cell count
erythropenia
Herceptin used for HER2 +ve breast cancer is an example of
naked monoclonal antibodies
Which is not a type of NHL?
Hodgkin’s disease
A test to measure the blood’s ability to clot is
prothrombin time
A congenital form of lymphoedema is
Milroy’s disease
What is given to Rh -ve mothers who have Rh +ve babies?
Anti-D
Which type of anaemia is due to vitamin B12 deficiency?
perncious anaemia
What sort of inheritance pattern is involved in haemophilia A?
X-linked recessive
A bone marrow transplant where the patient receives their own stem cells is called
autologous
EBV is responsible for this form of lymphoma
Burkitt’s lymphoma
process of obtaining bone marrow for transplantation.
harvesting
name of cells present in Hodgkin’s disease (two words)
reed sternberg
suffix meaning blood condition
aemia
a cell in bone marrow giving rise to different types of blood cells is a what cell?
stem
abnormal reduction of all blood cells
pancytopenia
a virus that causes enteritis and retinitis
cytomegalovirus
second-line immune defence results in what sort of response?
inflammatory
a general increase in red blood cells causing blood consistency to be viscous (two words)
polycythaemia vera
suffix meaning stop, control
stasis
a form of anemia where there is iron overload
sideroblastic
separation of blood into its parts
Apheresis e.g. is a procedure that separates your blood into its individual components during the donation process.
increase in neutrophils
neutrophilia
process of formation of erythrocytes
erythropoiesis
mildly elevated white cell count
leukocytosis
