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