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- 3. Immune system attacks your own tissues and organs
- 7. In surgery in hemolytic anemia, it is remove to reduce the fast destruction of red blood cells
- 8. The red blood cells produced by your body donāt function properly
- 15. A member of the herpes virus family
- 18. An inherited red blood cell disorder in which healthy reticulocytes are not enough to carry oxygen.
- 19. the body lacks adequate vitamin B12 to produce enough healthy red blood cells.
- 20. Dark yellow waste product that is created when the body break down hemoglobin
- 21. The stem cells in the bone marrow do not produce enough new blood cells
- 23. This test measures how many immature red blood cells that your body is producing.
- 24. Athletes use others blood with the same blood type
- 25. Slight but persistent blood loss
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- 1. This involves a transfusion of the athlete's own blood, which is drawn and then stored for future use.
- 2. Lack of iron in your body that affects the production of hemoglobin.
- 4. Measures levels of protein and liver enzymes
- 5. Named for its characteristics, which include hemolysis, elevated liver enzyme, and low platelet count
- 6. Keeps a child's immune system from functioning properly.
- 7. Causes: high altitude, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of tumor, heart or lung disease
- 9. Used to stimulate the body into releasing more red blood cells than the normal production to enhance the receiverās body.
- 10. Types of thalassemia with two mutated genes
- 11. Causes bone marrow to create excess precursor blood cells which develop and function abnormally
- 12. Lack of appetite for food
- 13. Heavy bleeding in women that occur more than 1-2 weeks
- 14. Test to evaluate the cells that circulate in the blood
- 16. Your body produce less hemoglobin than usual.
- 17. Common type of lupus which the immune system attacks its own tissues
- 22. Increasing hemoglobin allows higher amounts of oxygen to reach and fuel an athlete's muscles.