Hema Retake Flashcards
Total blood volume in an adult
5-6 liters
Micro sample collection only applies to infants, young children, adult with poor veins
should not be used on adult
Used in ESR
3.8% sodium citrate
Produces a bluish background on blood smear when stained with Wright’s or Leishman’s stain
Heparin
Most reliable criteria for estimation of cell lineage
Pattern of nuclear chromatin
Ability of the lens to delineate detail in a specimen
Resolution
Counting chamber for standardization of vaccine
Petroff-Hausser
Counting chamber for eosinophil and basophil
Fuchs-Rosenthal
Diluting fluid used for spectrophotometry
Gower’s Fluid
Used in cases of emergency when no other diluting fluids are available
NSS
Bone marrow cellularity
Aspiration
Multi-lineage cytokine
IL-1
earliest recognizable erythrocytic lineage
Rubriblast
start of Hb formation
Prorubricyte
last stage capable of cell division
Rubricyte
last stage with nucleus
Metarubricyte
stage that is normally seen in the peripheral blood
Reticulocyte
index of effective erythropoiesis
Reticulocyte count
RPI more than or equal to 3
evidence of hemolytic anemia
Generation of ATP
Embden-Meyerhof Pathway
Production of 2,3 DPG that affects the affinity of hemoglobin to oxygen
Leubering-Rapoport Pathway
Variation of Hb content
Anisochromasia
Seen in alcoholic cirrhosis, abetalipoproteinemia, post-splenectomy, PK deficiency, & LCAT deficiency
Spurr cell (Acanthocyte)
PK deficiency
Echinocyte
G6PD
Degmacyte (bite cell)
IDA
Elliptocyte (cigar)