Clinical Microscopy Flashcards
Moderate hazard. What degree of hazard
2
Patient deprived of fluid for 24 hours
Fishberg test
Staircase pattern crystal
Cholesterol
Gastric tube passed through the nose
Levin tube
Term to denote black stool excretion
Melena
Tetrahydrobenzoquinoline
Nitrite reagent strip
When hands are not visibly soiled
Apply sanitizer
Biohazard symbol description
3 overlapping circles
Purpose of blueing agent
To prevent specimen adulteration
Ealiest form of sperm cell
Spermatogonium
Variables in Cockgroft and Gault
Age, sex, body weight (kg)
Urine clarity determination
View through a newspaper print
Hardening of veins that drain testes
Varicocele
hCG is produced by what cell
Synctiotrophoblast cells of placenta
Reagent in APT test
Sodium hydroxide
Moderately hard renal stone
Uric acid
Crystal seen in Fanconi syndrome
Cystine
Positive result in MPS test
Blue color
No clot formation in the CSF
Intracranial hemorrhage
Alternative diluent for sperm dillution
Chilled (cold) tap water
Preservation for urine culture
Refrigeration
Automated UA stain for DNA
Phenathridine
Oval fat bodies are seen in
Nephrotic syndrome
Calibration of centrifuge is done every
3 months
Limulus Lysate test detects
Gram-negative endotoxin
Pellicle or weblike clot formation
Tubercular meningitis
Likely cause of milky urine in female
WBC
Rubner’s test detects what sugar (s)
Glucose and lactose
Soluble in both chloroform and butanol
Urobilinogen
Mistaken as Blastomyces in sputum
Myelin globules
Brown semen indicates
Presence of blood
What is a telescoped sediment
Variety of casts
CASA provides determination of
Sperm velocity and trajectory
Provide documentation of proper sample ID
Chain of custody (COC)
Color of leukocytes in Sternheimer-Malbin
Pale pink
Subtract increase WBC for every _____ RBCs
700
Test for ammonia in the CSF
Glutamine
Marker (s) for urinary bladder cancer
NMP, BTA
Normal string length of synovial fluid
4-6 cm
First fetal bowel movement
Meconium
Convert brightfield to darkfield, replace
Condenser
Used to clean optical surfaces of microscope
Lens paper
S.G of 9% sucrose
1.034 +/- 0.001
Positive result in the Resorcinol test
Orange-red color
MAO stands for
Maximum acid output
Crystalloid concretions in sputum
Broncholiths / pneumoliths
CSF tube number 4 is sent to
Serology (or Microbiology)
Term for bright red stool excretion
Hematochezia
Differentiate bacterial from non-bacterial meningitis
Procalcitonin
SSA grading: clumps of protein
4+
Principle of micral test
Enzyme immunoassay
Normal value for urinary eosinophils
1% or less
Artifact with dimpled appearance
Starch granules
Cigarette butt urine crystal
Calcium sulfate
Color of dead sperm in eosin-nigrosin test
Red
Urine preservative for 5-HIAA
HCl or boric acid
Reagent used in the Florence test
Iodine crystals + Potassium iodide
Deficiency in melanin production
Albinism
Produced by tracheobronchial tree
Sputum
Urine is red when myoglobin concentration is
25 mg/dL
Poison symbol
Skull with crossed bones
Effect of detergent on glucose reagent strip
False-positive
AER in microalbuminuria
20-200 ug/min
Cause of decreased sperm motility with clumping
Male antisperm antibodies
Flammable chemicals should be stored in
Explosion-proof refrigerator in a remote area
It supplies blood to the kidneys
Renal artery
Convert 2 mg/dL urobilinogen into Ehrlich units
2 Ehrlich units (EU)
Clinical significance of a cylindroid
Same significance as casts
Other name for apatite
Calcium phosphate
Branching / staghorn calculi
Triple phosphate / struvite stone
11th reagent strip pad
Ascorbic acid
% of lymphocyte population in the BAL
1-15%
Test to identify unknown body fluid as CSF
Electrophoresis (prealbumin + tau transferrin)
Synovial fluid appearance in septic arthritis
Cloudy, yellow-green
Normal appearance of gastric fluid
Pale gray, slightly mucoid
Length of sperm cell tail
45 um
Effect of proteinuria on PT-kit result
False-positive
Effect of p-aminosalicylic acid on UBG
False-positive
Reading time for blood reagent strip
60 seconds
Best fire extinguisher for electric fire
Halon foam (halogenated hydrocarbon)
Benedict’s test: yellow-orange color and ppt
3+
The 4th CSF tube is sent to
Serology (or Microbiology)
Positive result in foam stability index
Foam / bubbles / effervescence
Cloudy of milky synovial fluid
Crystal-induced arthritis
Buffer used in protein reagent pad
Citrate buffer maintained at pH 3.0
Abstinence period for seminalysis
2-7 days
% population in macrophages in BAL
56-80%
Normal synovial WBC count
<200 uL
Effect of radiographic dye in SSA
False-positive
Effect of highly alkaline urine in SSA
False-negative
Elevated in congenital erythrocytic porphyria
Uroporphyrin and coproporphyrin
Myoglobin concentration causing red urine
25 mg/dL
Reagent used in Ropes test
2-5% acetic acid
Gestation period for Down syndrome assessment
15th to 18th week
TAG level in pseudochylous effusion
<50 mg/dL
Function of histamine in gastric analysis
Gastric stimulant
Is empty urine container biohazard
No
Red precipitate forms after adding ammonium sulfate [(NH4)2SO4)]
Hemoglobin
1+ protein strip is equivalent to
30 mg/dL
Benedict’s test: green or yellow precipitate
1+
4+ protein strip is equivalent to
More than or equal to 2,000 mg/dL
How to quantitate bacteria in UF-1000i
Use of histogram and scattergram
Performs secondary magnification
Oculars or eyepiece
Accepted biohazard label color
Fluorescent orange
Renal threshold for sodium
120 mmol/L
Renal threshold for ketones
70 mg/dL
Renal threshold for potassium
None
Definition of nocturia
Excretion of >500 mL urine at night
Urine volume needed by urinometer
10 to 15 mL
Highly refractile RTE cell
Oval fat body
2nd most prevalent CSF protein
Prealbumin
Urine SG in acute tubular necrosis
1.010 (isosthenuric)
How to differentiate hemothorax and hemorrhagic effusion
Run hematocrit on the fluid
Why is Guiaic preferred in FOBT
To avoid false-positive reactions
QC in UA laboratory must be done every
Beginning of the shift, or every day
