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Medical Nutrition Therapy Hematology Terminology Agranulocytosis: a marked decrease in the number of granulocytes. Aleukemic Leukemia: Leukemia characterized by a normal or low number of white blood cells in the blood despite leukemic changes in tissues. Anisocytosis: Patient’s red blood cells are of unequal size. Anoxemia: An abnormal reduction in the oxygen content of the blood. Aplasia: Failure to develop. Basket Cell: Any of the neurons in the cerebellum whose terminal axons form a basketlike network around another cell. Blood Dyscrasia: A diseased state of the blood, usually one in which the blood contains permanent abnormal cellular elements. Chemotaxis: The characteristic movement or orientation of an organism or cell along a chemical concentration gradient either toward or away from the chemical stimulus. Also called chemotropism. Coagulation Time: the time required for blood to form a clot. Cocatalyst: a pair of cooperative catalysts that improve each others catalytic activity Complete Blood Count: s a blood test used to evaluate your overall health and detect a wide range of disorders, including anemia, infection and leukemia. Dyscrasia: Any disease condition, especially in hematology, as in "blood dyscrasias." Erythremia: A chronic form of polycythemia of unknown cause, characterized by an increase in blood volume and red blood cells, bone marrow hyperplasia, redness or cyanosis of the skin, and enlargement of the spleen. Erythrogenic: causing inflammation and reddening of the skin. Erythropenia: A deficiency in the number of red blood cells. Extrinsic: Of or relating to an organ or structure, especially a muscle, originating outside of the part where it is found or upon which it acts; adventitious. Fragility Test: A test to measure the resistance of red blood cells to hemolysis in hypotonic saline solutions. Hematology: The science of the blood and blood-producing organs. Hematoma: A localized swelling filled with blood resulting from a break in a blood vessel. Hemoglobinuria: free hemoglobin in the urine. Hemolysis: The destruction or dissolution of red blood cells, with release of hemoglobin. Hemoptysis: the coughing up of blood or bloody sputum from the lungs or airway. Intravascular: within a vessel. Isotonic: denoting a solution in which body cells can be bathed without net flow of water across the semipermeable cell membrane. Jaundice: a condition in which a person's skin and the whites of the eyes are discolored yellow due to an increased level of bile pigments in the blood resulting from liver disease. Karyolysis: the dissolution of the nucleus of a cell. Macrocyte: An abnormally large red blood cell, especially one associated with pernicious anemia. Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin (MCH): A measurement of the average weight of hemoglobin in a red blood cell. Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV): The average volume of red blood cells in erythrocyte indices, calculated from the hematocrit and the red blood cell count. Megaloblast: a large, nucleated, immature progenitor of an abnormal erythrocytic series; the abnormal form corresponding to the normoblast. Normoblast: A nucleated red blood cell, the immediate precursor of a normal red blood cell in humans. Pernicious Anemia: Pernicious anemia is a disease in which the red blood cells are abnormally formed, due to an inability to absorb vitamin B12. Poikilocytosis: The presence of poikilocytes in the peripheral blood. Also called poikilocythemia. Purpura: a small hemorrhage in the skin, mucous membrane, or serosal surface. Sedimentation Rate: the speed of settling of red blood cells in a vertical glass column of citrated plasma. Sickle Cell Anemia: An inherited disorder in which red blood cells contain an abnormal form of hemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen. Target Cell: an abnormal red blood cell characterized by a densely stained center surrounded by a pale unstained ring circled by a dark, irregular band. Xanthochromia: The occurrence of patches of yellow color in the skin resembling xanthoma but without nodules or plates.