Table of Contents
- 1 What word means destruction of a blood clot?
- 2 What is the medical term for separation of the blood?
- 3 What is thrombus medical term?
- 4 What is the medical term for the separation of blood into component parts and the removal of a select portion from that blood?
- 5 What does the medical term Peritonsillar mean?
- 6 Which of the following terms means blood destruction?
What word means destruction of a blood clot?
Lysis… The process by which a clot is dissolved or destroyed.
What is the medical term for separation of the blood?
Blood fractionation is the process of fractionating whole blood, or separating it into its component parts. This is typically done by centrifuging the blood.
Which term means pertaining to a clot?
Thrombosis: The formation or presence of a blood clot in a blood vessel. The vessel may be any vein or artery as, for example, in a deep vein thrombosis or a coronary (artery) thrombosis. The clot itself is termed a thrombus.
What is the medical term for destruction?
Lysis: Destruction. Lysis can also refer to the subsidence of one or more symptoms of an acute disease as, for example, the lysis of fever in pneumonia.
What is thrombus medical term?
(THROM-bus) A blood clot that forms on the wall of a blood vessel or in the heart when blood platelets, proteins, and cells stick together. A thrombus may block the flow of blood.
What is the medical term for the separation of blood into component parts and the removal of a select portion from that blood?
What is apheresis? Apheresis is a medical procedure that involves removing whole blood from a donor or patient and separating the blood into individual components so that one particular component can be removed.
What is the meaning of MCHC?
MCHC: Abbreviation for mean cell hemoglobin concentration, which is the average concentration of hemoglobin in a given volume of blood. The MCHC is a calculated value derived from the measurement of hemoglobin and the hematocrit.
What is the medical term for loosening of nerve tissue?
∎ Neur/o/lysis: Destruction of. nerve tissue. ∎ Neur/o/plasty: Surgical.
What does the medical term Peritonsillar mean?
per·i·ton·sil·lar. (per’i-ton’si-lăr), Around a tonsil or the tonsils.
Which of the following terms means blood destruction?
Hemolysis: The destruction of red blood cells which leads to the release of hemoglobin from within the red blood cells into the blood plasma. Etymology: The word “hemolysis” is made up of “hemo-“, blood + “lysis”, the disintegration of cells.