Chapter 13: Vocabulary

Question 1

Basophil

Answer 1

Whit blood cell with dark-staining granules that have an affinity for basic dyes

Question 2

Hypochromic

Answer 2

Pertaining to deficiency of color (reduction of hemoglobin in red blood cells)

Question 3

Anticoagulant

Answer 3

A substance that works against coagulation

Question 4

Coagulopathy

Answer 4

Disease of the clotting process

Question 5

Cytology

Answer 5

Study of cells

Question 6

Eosinophil

Answer 6

White blood cell with dark-staining granules in its cytoplasm

Question 7

Erythroblast

Answer 7

Immature red blood cell

Question 8

Granulocyte

Answer 8

White blood cell with large, dark-staining granules in its cytoplasm

Question 9

Hemolysis

Answer 9

Destruction of blood cells

Question 10

Hematocrit

Answer 10

Separation of blood; percentage of red blood cells in a given volume of blood

Question 11

Hemoglobinopathy

Answer 11

Disease of abnormal hemoglobins (sickle cell anemia, thalassemia)

Question 12

Anisocytosis

Answer 12

Abnormal condition of unequal size of cells

Question 13

Megakaryocyte

Answer 13

Cell with multiple large nuclei; immature platelet

Question 14

Leukocytopenia

Answer 14

Deficiency of white blood cells

Question 15

Monocyte

Answer 15

White loos cell wit hone large nucleus; an a granulocyte and phagocyte

Question 16

Morphology

Answer 16

Study of shape or form (or blod cells)

Question 17

Myeloblast

Answer 17

Bone marrow cell that develops into a myolocyte and then a leukocyte

Question 18

Myelodysplasia

Answer 18

Abnormal development of bone marrow cells; preleukemic condition

Question 19

Neutropenia

Answer 19

Deficiency in neutrophils

Question 20

Polymorphonuclear

Answer 20

Pertaining to a white blood cell with a multi lobed nucleus (neutrophil)

Question 21

Phagocyte

Answer 21

Cell that ingests other cells or microorganisms

Question 22

Poikilocytosis

Answer 22

Irregularity in the shape of red blood cells

Question 23

Sideropenia

Answer 23

Deficiency in iron in serum

Question 24

Spherocytosis

Answer 24

Condition (abnormal) in which erythrocytes assume a spheroidal (rounded) shape.

Question 25

Thrombocytopenia

Answer 25

Deficiency of clotting cells