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Question | Answer |
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A,B,AB,O | blood types in ABO blood group |
AB,Ab,ab | antibody; abortion |
AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
ALL | acute lymphocytic leukemia |
AML | acute myelogenous leukemia |
APC | antigen-presenting cell |
APTT | activated partial thromboplastin time |
baso | basophil (type of white blood cell) |
CBC | complete blood count |
CLL | chronic lymphocytic leukemia |
CML | chronic myelogenous leukemia |
diff | differential count |
EBV | Epstein-Barr virus |
eos | eosinophil (type of white blood cell) |
ESR | erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
FBS | fasting blood sugar |
G-CSF | granulocyte colony-stimulating factor |
GTT | glucose tolerance test |
GVHD | graft-versus-host reaction |
Hb, Hgb | hemoglobin |
HCT, Hct | hematocrit |
HDN | hemolytic disease of the newborn |
HIV | human immunodefiency virus |
Igs | immunoglobins |
INR | international normalized ratio |
ITP | idiopathic thrombcytopenic purpura |
IV | intravenous |
lymphos | lymphocytes |
MCH | mean corpuscular hemoglobin |
MCHC | mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration |
MCV | mean corpuscular volume |
ml, mL | millilitres |
NK cell | natural killer cell |
PA | pernicious anemia |
PCp | pneumocystis pneumonia |
PCV | packed cell volume |
poly, PMN, PML | polymorphonuclear; polymorphonuclear leukocyte |
PT | prothrombin time |
PTT | partial thromboplastin time |
RA | right atrium; rheumatoid arthritis |
RBC, rbc | red blood cell |
sed | sedation |
segs | segmented neutrophils |
SLE | systemic lupus erythromatosus |
WBC, wbc | white blood cell |