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