Chapter 5 Vocab Flashcards
Special Collections
Also called blood films; the procedure consists of a thin layer of blood smeared on a microscope slide and then stained to allow microscopic examination.
Peripheral Blood Smears
A blood test procedure performed on microscopic slides that gives information about the number and shape of blood cells.
Blood Smear
Also known as a dermal puncture or finger stick, used to collect small samples of blood composed of capillary, venous, or arterial blood.
Capillary Puncture
A Labatory test used to check for bacteria or other micro-organisms in a blood sample.
Blood Culture
Type of blood culture bottle used to collect specimens to test for microbes that thrive in air.
Aerobic Blood Culture Bottle
Type of blood culture bottle used to collect specimens to test for microbes that thrive in an airless environment.
Anaerobic Blood Culture Bottle
An antiseptic antibacterial agent used to help cleanse the patient’s skin for blood collection.
Chlorhexidine Gluconate
Mucous secretions that accumulate in various organs.
Cystic Fibrosis
Decreased thyroid function.
Hypothyroidism
A metabolic genetic disorder characterized by a deficiency in the hepatic enzyme Phenylalanine Hydroxylase Classic (PKU) causes permanent intellectual disability seizures, delayed development, behavioral problems, psychiatric disorders, a mousy body odor, lighting of skin and hair, and eczema. Phenylalanine can be found in most foods; if not broken down, it can rise to toxic levels in infants. Brain damage can occur when phenylketone levels become toxic.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Lack of an enzyme that breaks down galactose (a milk sugar) into glucose. If untreated, the infant can slowly starve to death.
Galactosemia
Deficiency of the enzyme that breaks down biotin.
Biotinidase Deficiency
Abnormal hemoglobin structure.
Sickle Cell Disease
A place where blood is collected from donors, typed, separated into components, stored, and prepared for transfusion to recipients; a blood bank may be a separate free-standing facility, or part of a larger laboratory in a hospital.
Blood Bank
When a patient donates blood to be used for their own needs for future use.
Autologous TransfusionA
A form of phlebotomy prescribed as treatment for patients who have polycythemia vera or hemochromatosis.
Therapeutic Phlebotomy
High red blood cell count.
Polycythemia Vera
High Iron Count
Hemochromatosis
Removal of blood plasma from a patient’s body without withdrawing the blood itself. The process separates the blood into plasma and cells returning the cells to the patient’s blood. Also known as Power Red.
Apheresis
Removal of blood plasma from whole blood.
Plasmapheresis
A urine test performed to test for urinary tract infection (UTI)
Culture and Sensitivity
A urine specimen that may be collected at any time without restrictions of fasting, timing or aseptic condition.
Random
A method of performing a urine collection that helps prevent bacterial contamination.
Clean-Catch Midstream
A test performed to determine how well a patient’s body metabolizes sugar.
Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT)
