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Hematology
The science encompassing the medical study of the blood and blood-producing organs.
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basket cell
Health care; Hematology
A degenerated primitive cell which has ruptured and in which the cell nucleus appears as a pale staining smear without prescribed form or shape.
basophil
Health care; Hematology
A granular leukocyte, the granules of which have affinities for the basic dye of Wright stain (methylene blue). The granules are large, irregular and blue-black in color.
basophilic
Health care; Hematology
Staining readily with basic dyes, for example, blue with Ramanovsky type stains.
bleeding time
Health care; Hematology
The time required for a small standardized wound, made in the capillary bed of the finger or ear lobe, to stop bleeding.
