What is the term for a disease caused by the body's immune system attacking the body's own healthy tissue?

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What is the term for the presence of bilirubin (red bile; a substance derived from red blood cells that have completed their life span) in the blood?

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What is the term for any disease that deals with problems in blood coagulation?

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What is the term for apheresis to remove cellular material?

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What is the term for the formation of a blood clot in a vein deep in the body, most commonly the leg?

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What is the term for a large bruise?

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What is the term for an oval-shaped red blood cell?

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What is the term for a condition characterized by an increase in the number of oval-shaped red blood cells?

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What is the term for blockage in a blood vessel caused by an embolus?

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What is the term for a mass of matter present in the blood?

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What is the meaning of the term 'erythrocyte'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'erythrocytosis'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hematocrit'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hematology'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hematoma'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hematopoiesis'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemoglobin'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemoglobinopathy'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemolysis'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemolytic anemia'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemophilia'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemorrhage'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hemostatic'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hepatosplenitis'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hepatosplenomegaly'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hyperbilirubinemia'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hypercholesterolemia'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hypercoagulability'?

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What is the meaning of the term 'hyperlipidemia'?

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Fill in the blank: (a)   means increased spleen activity.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means increased blood volume.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means inadequate flow of blood.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means decreased blood volume.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means having an immune system incapable of responding normally and completely to a pathogen or disease.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means immune system with decreased or compromised response to disease-causing organisms.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is a protein that provides protection (immunity) against disease.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is a specialist in the immune system.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the study of the immune system.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the reduction in the activity of the body's immune system.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is anemia caused by inadequate iron intake.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the blockage of blood flow to an organ.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the surgical removal of the spleen through the abdomen.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by the abnormal increase in white blood cells.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means white blood cell.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the increase in the number of white blood cells.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the deficiency in white blood cells.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the surgical removal of a lymph gland (node).

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the inflammation of a lymph gland (node).

Fill in the blank: (a)   is any disease of a lymph gland (node); used to refer to noticeably swollen lymph nodes, especially in the neck.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the incision into a lymph gland (node).

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the dilation of a lymph vessel, normally noticed by swelling in the extremities.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the record of the study of lymph vessels.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the procedure to study the lymph vessels.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the inflammation of the lymph vessels.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the swelling caused by abnormal accumulation of lymph.

Fill in the blank: (a)   means lymph cell.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is a tumor originating in lymphocytes.

Fill in the blank: (a)   is the abnormal deficiency in lymph.

What is the medical term for a condition characterized by large red blood cells?

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What is the medical term for a condition characterized by small red blood cells?

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What is the medical term for a disease characterized by poor production of blood cells by the bone marrow?

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What is the medical term for a cancerous tumor of the bone marrow?

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What is the medical term for the formation of bone marrow?

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What is the medical term for surgical fixation of the spleen and a kidney?

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What is the medical term for deficiency in neutrophil?

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What is the medical term for a normal-sized red blood cell?

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What is the medical term for deficiency in the number of red blood cells?

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What is the medical term for inflammation of bone and bone marrow?

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What is the medical term for deficiency in all cellular components of the blood?

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What is the medical term for circulation of blood through tissue?

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What is the medical term for a small bruise?

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What is the process in which phagocytes (a type of white blood cell) destroy (or eat) foreign microorganisms or cell debris called?

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What is the term for dilation of blood vessels?

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What is the study of veins called?

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Who is a specialist in drawing blood?

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What is the term for incision into a vein (another name for drawing blood)?

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What is the term for apheresis to remove plasma?

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What is the term for apheresis to remove platelets (for the purpose of donating them to patients in need of platelets)?

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What is the condition characterized by red blood cells in a variety of shapes called?

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What is the term for excess of red blood cells?

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What is the injury to tissue that occurs after blood flow is restored called?

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What is an immature red blood cell called?

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What is the presence of disease-causing microorganisms in the blood called?

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What is a red blood cell that assumes a spherical shape called?

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What is the condition in which red blood cells assume a spherical shape called?

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What is the fancy name for the device used to measure blood pressure?

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What is the term for pain in the spleen?

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What is the surgical removal of the spleen called?

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What is the displacement of the spleen, sometimes called floating spleen, called?

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What is the term for a drug that breaks down blood clots?

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What is the term for inflammation of a vein caused by a clot?

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What is the term for the formation of a blood clot?

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What is the term for a blood clot?

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What is the term for the surgical removal of the thymus?

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What is the term for overdevelopment of the thymus?

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