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Hematology
The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.
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anticoagulant
Health care; Hematology
A substance that prevents the coagulation of blood. Commonly used ones are potassium oxalate, sodium oxalate, sodium citrate, EDTA and heparin.
aplasia
Health care; Hematology
Incomplete or defective blood development; cessation of blood cell formation.
aplastic anemia
Health care; Hematology
Anemia characterized b incomplete or effective blood development.
azurophilic granule
Health care; Hematology
Rounded, discrete, reddish-purple granule, smaller than the granules of neutrophils; 1-10 are common in lymphocytes, and they are very numerous, and smaller, in the cytoplasm of monocytes
band form
Health care; Hematology
In the Schilling classification, a neutrophil with the nucleus unsegmented and ribbonlike; also stab, staff, nonfilamented.
