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The infectious agent that causes chancroid.  

A person who has hemophilia. A person afflicted with above.  

A genetic disease almost exclusively of males, which interferes with blood coagulation, resulting in the person bleeding excessively when injured. Blood lacks a clotting factor. A group of disorders in which the blood fails to clot properly, usually because of deficiency or total lack of one or more enzymes, called coagulation factors, needed for proper…

An organism that destroys red blood cells and allows hemoglobin to escape, hemolytic.  

The mixture of blood and other fluids in the body cavity of an invertebrate. Blood and lymph.  

The presence of hemoglobin in the urine, as in blackwater fever. Abnormal presence of free hemoglobin in the urine. The presence of hemoglobin in the urine without the simultaneous presence of red blood cells. Under normal circumstances, red blood cells break down after a life span of approximately 120 days. The break-down process occurs largely…

An increase in the fluid content of the blood resulting in diminution of the proportion of formed elements, red and white blood cells and platelets. Increase in blood fluid, decrease in blood cells. Dilution of the volume of red blood cells by an expansion of the extracellular water compartment. A decrease in the proportion of…

An instrument used in counting the blood corpuscles in a sample of blood. A special glass chamber of known volume into which diluted blood is introduced. The numbers of the various blood cells present are then counted visually, through a microscope. Hemocytometers have been largely replaced by electronic cell counters. A device for determining the…

A special part of the coelom for transporting blood.  

The condition in which only one allele of a pair is present, as in deletion or sex linkage. Describing genes that are carried on an unpaired chromosome, for example the genes on the X chromosome in man.