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Hemophilia
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Excessive bleeding caused by hereditary lack of clotting factor VIII or IX
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Thrombolytic
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Pertaining to destruction of clots
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Sickle cell anemia
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Abnormally shaped red blood cells cause hemolysis, it is a hereditary
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Aplastic anemia
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Blood cells are not formed or produced in the bone marrow
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Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura
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Deficiency of platelets with hemorrhages into the skin, no known cause
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Red blood cell morphology
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A stained blood smear is examined to determine the shape of individual red blood cells
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Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
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Venous is collected, anticoagulant added an the distance clls fall in a period of tim is determined
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Bleeding time
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Time it takes for a small puncture wound to stop bleeding
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Platelet count
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A test done to count the number of platelets per cubic millliter or microliter of blood
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Coombs test
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Determines the presence of antibodies in infants of RH-negative women or patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia
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Autologous transfusion
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Blood collected from and then later infused into the same patient
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Hematocrit
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Measure the precentage of red blood cells in a volume of blood
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Bone marrow biopsy
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A needle is introduced into the bone marrow cavity and a small amount of bone marrow is aspirated and then examined under the microscope
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WBC differential
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White blood cll differential-leucocytes are stained and counted under a microscope to see numbers of mature and immature forms
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Coagulation time
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Ability of venous blood to clot in a test tube
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