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WBC with dork staining granules that have an affinity for basic dyes

pertaining to deficiency of color (reduction of hemoglobin in RBC)

a substance that works against coagulation (blood clotting)

disease of the clotting process

the study of cells

WBC with large dark staining granules that have an affinity for acid dyes. granules turn red (eosin)in the presence of dye

deficiency of RBC

WBC with large, dark staining granules in its cytoplasm

destruction of blood cells

seperation of blood; percentage of RBC in a given volume of blood

disease of abnormal hemoglobins (sickle cell anemia, thalassemia)

abnormal condition of unequal size of cells (erythrocytes)

cell with multiple large nuclei. immature platelet

deficiency of WBC

WBC with one large nucleus; an agranulocyte and phagocyte

study of shape or form (of blood cells)

bone marrow cell that develops into a myelocyte and then a leukocyte

pertaining to formed in the bone marrow

deficiency in neutrophils

pertaining to WBC with one large nucleus (monocyte or lymphocyte)

pertaing to a WBC with a multilobed nucleus (neutrophil)

cell that ingests other cells or microorganisms

irregularity in the shape of RBC

deficiency in iron in serum

abnormal condition in which erythrocytes assume a spheroidal (rounded) shaper

deficiency of clotting cells