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| | Blood type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Blood type is determined by the antigens (epitopes) on the surface of a red blood cell. | | | A blood type (or blood group) is a characteristic of an individual's red blood cells, defined in terms of specific substances (carbohydrates and proteins) on the cell membrane. | | | The Japan blood type theory of personality is a popular belief that a person's ABO blood type is predictive of their personality, character, and compatibility with others. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Red blood cell indices |
| | Red blood cell indices are measurements that describe the size and oxygen-carrying protein (hemoglobin) content of red blood cells. | | | Red blood cell indices are additional measurements of red blood cells based on the relationship of these three test results. | | | The hematocrit is a measure of red blood cell mass, or how much space in the blood is occupied by red blood cells. |
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| | Blood |
| | This photomicrograph shows a single neutrophil surrounded by red blood cells. | | | Red blood cells are responsible for the transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide. | | | Red blood cells have surface antigens that differ between people and that create the so-called blood groups such as the ABO system and the Rh system. |
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| | slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Rose Red |
| | The disc's audio is especially noteworthy when Rose Red squeaks and rumbles whenever someone goes down one of her cavernous hallways. | | | They say she was born bad though she's just a "dead cell" nowadays. | | | slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Rose Red |
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| | Blood |
| | The causes of anemia can be grouped into two categories: anemia that occurs because not enough red blood cells are produced and anemia that's caused because red blood cells are destroyed too soon. | | | These three types of blood cells are mostly manufactured in the bone marrow (the soft tissue inside our bones), especially in the bone marrow of the vertebrae (the bones that make up the spine), ribs, pelvis, skull, and sternum (breastbone). | | | Blood is essential for good health because the body depends on a steady supply of fuel and oxygen to reach its billions of cells. |
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| | Red Cross: Give blood for holiday - gainesvilletimes.com |
| | January also happens to be National Volunteer Blood Donor Month, so the Red Cross is inviting everyone, regardless of race, to roll up their sleeves. | | | Blacks also are more likely to have certain conditions, such as sickle cell anemia, that require them to receive frequent blood transfusions. | | | "What black people need to know is that you can give blood if you carry the sickle cell trait, though not if you have the actual disease," said Gulden. |
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| | Medical College of Wisconsin Healthlink Topics: Blood/Blood Pressure |
| | Removing just part of the spleen, rather than the entire organ, appears to control the breakup of red blood cells that occurs in some hereditary anemias while retaining the function of the spleen. | | | In people with sickle cell anemia, red blood cells become stiff and form a half-circle, or "sickle" shape that can't squeeze through small blood vessels. | | | Transplantation of cord blood - normally discarded after a baby's birth - provides leukemia patients with stem cells, enabling them to produce healthy blood cells in a procedure shown to be highly effective in children with the disease. |
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| | All About Blood |
| | If blood is treated to prevent clotting and permitted to stand in a container, the red blood cells, which weigh more than the other components, will settle to the bottom; the plasma will stay on top; and the white blood cells and platelets will remain suspended between the plasma and the red blood cells. | | | Blood transfusions often are needed for trauma victims — due to accidents and burns — heart surgery, organ transplants, and patients receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer or other diseases, such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia. | | | Blood dilution, or hemodilution, is the removal of one or more units of blood just before surgery for transfusion to the patient during or at the end of the operation. |
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| | Hematology/Coagulation/Transfusion Medicine (Red Service) |
| | A wide variety of blood banking issues is covered, some of which impact the LMR’s responsibilities on the red service. | | | This is an excellent opportunity to learn the hallmarks and subtleties of red cell and white cell morphology. | | | The red LMR is an especially important liaison between the Blood Bank and house staff for those patients with bleeding disorders requiring emergent intervention. |
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| | Blood plasma - encyclopedia article about Blood plasma. |
| | Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). | | | Red blood cells Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and are the vertebrate body's principal means of delivering oxygen from the lungs or gills to body tissues via the blood. | | | White Blood Cells is also the name of a White Stripes album. |
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| | Facts About Blood-Blood Diseases & Disorders |
| | The primary function of red blood cells, or erythrocytes, is to carry oxygen and carbon dioxide. | | | Blood cells are made in the bone marrow. | | | A complete blood cell count is a measurement of size, number, and maturity of the different blood cells in a specific volume of blood. |
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| | Blood Bank Locator |
| | The need for blood is great--on any given day, approximately 38,000 units of Red Blood Cells are needed. | | | If you would like to donate blood or are in need of a blood transfusion as part of an upcoming surgery or therapy, be sure to consider an AABB-accredited hospital. | | | Accident victims, people undergoing surgery, and patients receiving treatment for leukemia, cancer, or other diseases, such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia, all utilize blood. |
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| | Blood Management - NoBlood.org |
| | Morbidity and mortality risk associated with red blood cell and blood-component... | | | 4-11-2006 11:57 AM Canada's Last Taboo: Gay Blood Donation (118) | | | More importantly, NoBlood.org encourages cooperation among healthcare organizations, dedicated professionals and the general public to advance blood avoidance strategies resulting in solutions for life. |
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| | Soar Frequently Asked Questions List |
| | Johnson, K. A., Johnson, T. R., Smith, J. J., De Jong, M., Fischer, O., Amra, N. K., and Bayazitoglu, A. RedSoar: A system for red blood cell antibody identification. | | | Rick has moved to ACT-R with his work. | | | While the book chapter does not match data tightly, the later Aasman book (1995) does so very well. |
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| | ANAEMIA |
| | Stage ll iron deficiency can eventually lead into true iron-deficiency anaemia, with abnormally low levels of blood haemoglobin (haemoglobin is the iron-containing compound found in red blood cells which actually carries oxygen to the tissues) and truncated haematocrit readings (haematocrit is simply the percentage of blood which is made up of red blood cells). | | | This upswing in blood volume although beneficial to the endurance athlete, (it increases the amount of blood which can flow to the muscles and skin during exercise; the enhanced skin flow promotes better body cooling) artificially lowers haemoglobin and haematocrit readings, fooling some doctors into thinking that anaemia is present. | | | A female athlete with a haematocrit of 37 per cent is in the normal range, for example, but if her usual haematocrit is 42, she would actually be mildly anaemic, and her athletic performances would suffer. |
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| | American Red Cross Blood Services, New England Region, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont |
| | Double Red Cell donations are also accepted at the Red Cross blood center in Bangor as well. | | | Red Cross often has shortages of certain types of red blood cells, especially type O and type B. Double red cell collections allow us to get two red blood cells from an O or B donor, greatly incresing our ability to supply hospital and patient needs for these types. | | | Through the latest in automated technology, the American Red Cross now has the ability to collect two units of red blood cells from a single donor who meets all eligibility requirements. |
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| | American Red Cross Blood Services, New England Region, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont |
| | Roughly 220 milliliters of red cells are collected from Whole Blood donors and 360 milliliters of red cells are taken during a 2 unit red cell apheresis donation. | | | Red Cross often has shortages of certain types of red blood cells, especially type O and type B. Double red cell collections allow us to get two red blood cells from an O or B donor, greatly increasing our ability to supply hospital and patient needs for these types. | | | Through the latest in automated technology, the American Red Cross now has the ability to collect two units of red blood cells from a single donor who meets all eligibility requirements. |
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| | Red Gold . Glossary PBS |
| | Any of the hemoglobin-containing cells that carry oxygen to the tissues and are responsible for the red color of vertebrate blood -- called also erythrocyte, red blood corpuscle, red cell, red corpuscle. | | | A large white blood cell with finely granulated chromatin dispersed throughout the nucleus that is formed in the bone marrow, enters the blood, and migrates into the connective tissue where it differentiates into a macrophage. | | | Any of the blood cells that are colorless, lack hemoglobin, contain a nucleus, and include the lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils -- called also leukocyte, white blood corpuscle, white cell, white corpuscle. |
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| | DOUBLE RED CELL APHERESIS |
| | Red Cell Apheresis donations use a cell separator to draw the blood and provides volume replacement (saline solution) to replace the volume of blood lost by the donor, unlike whole blood that uses gravity to draw the blood and does not replace any volume to the donor. | | | Red Cell Apheresis separates red cells and plasma while your blood is being drawn, unlike whole blood donations where blood components are separated later in the process. | | | The difference is that the Red Cell Apheresis retains the red cells and returns the plasma, platelets and white cells to the donors. |
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| | Haematocrit |
| | In anaemia, the haematocrit is usually low while in states of oxygen deprivation, increased red blood cell production or dehydration with loss of body fluids, the haematocrit is high. | | | It correlates with the number of red blood cells and the oxygen carrying capacity of blood. |
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| | Red blood cell definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | A red blood cell is sometimes simply referred to as a red cell. | | | The mature red blood cell (RBC) is a non-nucleated biconcave disk. | | | epoetin alfa, Epogen, Procrit - Explains the medication epoetin alfa (Epogen, Procrit), a drug used to treat anemia (low red blood cell count) that is associated with chronic kidney failure in patients who are or will be receiving renal dialysis. |
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| | Dr. Koop - Thalassemia- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | Thalassemia, also known as Mediterranean Anemia, Cooley's Anemia or Homozygous Beta Thalassemia, is a group of inherited disorders in which there is a fault in the production of hemoglobin (oxygen-carrying pigment found in red blood cells). | | | The diagnosis of thalassemia trait and thalassemia major is made from microscopic examination of the blood, which shows many small, pale red blood cells, and from other blood tests that show reduced levels of adult hemoglobin in the blood. | | | Thalassemia trait is present at birth, it remains the same for life, and it can be handed down from parents to children. |
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| | Texas Department of Health-Sickle Cell |
| | The sickled red blood cells in sickle beta zero thalassemia, like those in sickle cell anemia, are rigid and stiff and may sometimes cause "log jams" in the small blood vessels in the bones, organs and other parts of the body. | | | In addition, the red blood cells have a defect called thalassemia, which results in cells that are small in size and more pale than usual. | | | Your child should not be considered "sick", and you should treat him or her normally. |
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| | Blood plasma - encyclopedia article about Blood plasma. |
| | Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). | | | Red blood cells Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and are the vertebrate body's principal means of delivering oxygen from the lungs or gills to body tissues via the blood. | | | Red blood cells are also known as RBCs or erythrocytes (from Greek erythros for "red" and kytos for "hollow", nowadays translated as "cell"). |
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| | Blood plasma - encyclopedia article about Blood plasma. |
| | Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). | | | Red blood cells Red blood cells are the most common type of blood cell and are the vertebrate body's principal means of delivering oxygen from the lungs or gills to body tissues via the blood. | | | Red blood cells are also known as RBCs or erythrocytes (from Greek erythros for "red" and kytos for "hollow", nowadays translated as "cell"). |
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| | Complete Blood Count |
| | These three tests are the indicators of red blood cells that are directly measured, but a variety of other indicators are also calculated from these measurements, such as the hematocrit, which is the percentage of the blood sample volume made up by red blood cells. | | | The red blood cell, shaped like a doughnut without a hole in the center, carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. | | | The mean cell volume (MCV) measures the average red blood cell sizes. |
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| | Sickle cell anemia |
| | Sickle cell anemia is an inherited form of anemia — a condition in which there aren't enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body. | | | Sickle cell anemia is caused by a mistake in the gene that tells your body to make hemoglobin — the red, iron-rich protein that gives blood its red color. | | | People with sickle cell anemia have low levels of nitric oxide, a gas that helps keep blood vessels open and reduces the stickiness of red blood cells. |
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