Across
- 2. Every hospital's greatest asset.
- 4. An apparatus for taking very fine slices of tissue while it is kept very cold.
- 5. The branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed.
- 7. A procedure in which a needle is used to take blood from a vein.
- 10. Type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl ( −OH) functional group bound to a saturated carbon atom.
- 11. The branch of science that deals with microorganisms.
- 13. The study of the forms of things.
- 15. "related to fever".
- 16. Small, colorless cell fragments in our blood that form clots and stop or prevent bleeding.
Down
- 1. Process of testing a patient's blood against donor blood to confirm compatibility.
- 3. A person employed to look after technical equipment or do practical work in a laboratory.
- 6. A device that helps separate components of a mixture.
- 8. A physician that studies bodies and body tissue.
- 9. The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
- 12. Laboratory Accrediting Agency.
- 14. a term used to describe diagnostic testing that is performed in the patient's unit rather than in the hospital's central lab or outside reference lab.
- 16. The colorless fluid part of blood.
- 17. An amber-colored, protein-rich liquid that separates out when blood coagulates.