HEMATOLOGY
Across
- 1. Variation in RBC size
- 4. Liver disorder causing abnormal oxygen
- 6. Abnormally large red blood cells
- 7. Technical name for a sickle cell
- 9. Central element for heme synthesis
- 10. RBC with abnormal shapes
- 12. Low red blood count or hemoglobin
- 14. Presence of abnormally shaped red blood cells
- 15. Short term for oxygen transporter
- 16. Blood slide to view red cell morphology
- 17. Gas transported by hemoglobin
- 18. Increased number of immature red cells in peripheral blood
- 22. Oxygen carrying protein in red blood cells
- 23. Destruction or rupture of RBC
- 24. marrow Tissue containing erythropoietic site
- 25. marrow Site of adult blood cell formation, for short
- 27. Spherical red blood cells
- 28. Major iron-storage protein
Down
- 2. Egg-shaped red cells
- 3. Iron-containing part of hemoglobin
- 5. Spiky red cells with irregular projections
- 6. Average RBC size, for short
- 8. Vitamin deficiency with macrocytic anemia
- 11. Erythropoiesis occurring outside the bone marrow
- 13. Term of senescent red blood cells
- 19. Organ clearing old RBCs
- 20. Stage where red cell precursor expels nucleus
- 21. Passed genetically
- 26. Process of RBC production
- 29. deficiency Most common cause of microcytic anemia