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Moss Final Flashcards

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Involving quality control factors; reproducibility of measurements.

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Precision

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Involving quality control factors; how closely results agree w/the true quantitative value.

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Accuracy

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Involving quality control factors; the ability of a method to be accurate.

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Reliability.

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Three common errors involving quality control

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  1. Clerical (wrong name..)
  2. Random (variations found in glassware..)
  3. Systemic (gradual changing..)
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Stain to see nucleus, cytoplasm, granules in WBCs

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Romanoswky stain

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Stain to see nuclear criteria, hienze bodies (it doesn’t stain the cytoplasm, only the nucleus of RBCs.

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New methylene blue

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Stain that helps identify fat. It’s an orange stain. You can mix with feces and other samples other than blood.

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Sudan lll

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Stain for microbiology. Tells us if its gram pos. or gram neg. and helpd the doctor see what kind of bacteria the animal is dealing with.

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Gram

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Stain used for gram stains that can’t tell using its gram pos. or gram neg.

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KOH/ potassium hydroxide

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Stain for fungal cultures. Helps identify fungal elements. This stain.

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Lactophenol cotton blue

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Stain that aids in diagnose of Protozoa, parasites that are on fecals. (It kills them though)

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Lugols iodine

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11
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What binds to coagulant

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Calcium

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12
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How many ml of blood will you need to give you 1cc of serum

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3ml

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13
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Anticoagulant for choice of plasma samples

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Heparin -green

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Anticoagulant for coagulation studies (platelet or clotting factors)

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Sodium citrate -blue

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Estimate of a RBC count

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Divide PCV by 6

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16
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Estimate of Hb

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Divide PCV by 3

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17
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Estimate of WBC by Buffy coat

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1mm = 10,000 WBC and 2,000 WBC for every .1mm thereafter

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18
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PCV for dog

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37-55 %

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19
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PCV for cat

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30-45 %

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20
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Hgb for dog

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12-18 g/dl

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21
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Hgb for cat

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8-15 g/dl

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WBC for dog

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6.0-15.0 x10^3/ml

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WBC for cat

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5.5-19.5 x10^3/ml

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RBC for dog

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5.0-8.5 x10^6/ml

25
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RBC for cat

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5.0-10.0 x10^6/ml

26
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Three functions of blood

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  • transport system
  • regulatory system
  • defense system
27
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Function of RBC?

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To carry oxygen to all the tissues of the body. It does this by the production of the protein hgb which binds w/ the oxygen.

28
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Main organ involved with the storage of blood

29
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What are the four functions of platelets

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  1. Maintain vascular integrity
  2. Prevent hemorrhage
  3. Coagulation
  4. Clot retraction
30
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Platelets are dependent on what two things

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  1. Adequate numbers of plts present

2. Normal plt function

31
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Platelet count for canine

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160,000-625,000

32
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Platelet count for feline

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160,000-700,000

33
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T/F feline platelets are smaller than canine

34
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Platelets that appear spider-like

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Activated platelets

35
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Platelets that show the predominant as microplatelets indicate what

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Early immune mediated thrombocytopenia

36
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Ability of the body’s systems to maintain the integrity of the blood and blood vessels

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Hemostasis

37
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Specific gravity for most solutions

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1.200-1.250

38
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Specific gravity for most parasite eggs

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1.100-1.280

39
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Evidence of increased RBC production in the blood and bone marrow. You must see polychromatophils, reticulocytes, nucleated RBC, HJB

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Regenerative anemia

40
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When bone marrow cannot respond adequately to the anemia. When you have absence of reticulocytes and polychromasia.

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Non regenerative anemia

41
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Stomach worm.

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Physaloptera rara

42
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Esophageal worm

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Spirocerca lupi

43
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Protozoa intestinal coccidian of cats (very small in size)

Zoonotic

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Toxoplasma gondii

44
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Nematode of the GI tract; free living nematode. Males do not exist live in small intestines, straight tail and zoonotic

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Strongyloides stercoralis

45
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Nematode of respiratory tract. Lung parasite of cats. Infection is ny eating snails.

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Aelurostrongylus abstrusus

46
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Nematode of respiratory tract. Ingestion of earth worms

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Capillaria aerophila

47
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Canine lung parasite

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Filaroides hirthi and osleri

48
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Raccoon roundworm

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Baylisascaris procyonis

49
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Eyeworm in dogs

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Thelazia californiensis

50
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Intestinal fluke cats dogs

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Alaria canis

51
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Lung fluke (crayfish)

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Paragonimus kellicotti

52
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Salmon poisoning fluke.

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Nanophyetus salmincola

53
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Cat liver fluke

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Platynosmum fastosum

54
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Protozoan found in canine RBC (intracellular)

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Babesia canis

55
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Blood protozoan of cats (intacellular)

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Cytauxzoon Felis

56
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Human pathogen

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Tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus

57
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Broad fish tapeworm

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Diphyllobothrium latum

58
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Zipper tapeworm

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Spirometra mansonoides

59
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Dog cat tapeworm

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Diplylidium caninum

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