plasma iron clearance
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plasma iron clearance half-time — the time required for half of the iron in the blood plasma at a given time to be removed, determined by administering radioactive iron 59 bound to the patient s own transferrin and calculating the slope of the best fit line to a semilogarithmic… … Medical dictionary
plasma iron turnover — (PIT) the rate at which iron leaves the blood plasma for bone marrow or other tissues, expressed in mg/day; calculated as: (plasma iron concentration) Ч (plasma volume) Ч 0.693 ч (plasma iron clearance half time) … Medical dictionary
Blood plasma — is the straw colored liquid component of blood in which the blood cells in whole blood are normally suspended. It makes up about 55% of the total blood volume. It is the intravascular fluid part of extracellular fluid (all body fluid outside of… … Wikipedia
ferrokinetics — The study of iron metabolism using radioactive iron. [L. ferrum, iron, + G. kinesis, movement] * * * fer·ro·ki·net·ics (fer″o kĭ netґiks) [ferro + kinetics] the movement of iron in the body from plasma transferrin to red cell… … Medical dictionary
Reference ranges for blood tests — Reference ranges edit in: blood urine CSF feces Reference ranges for blood tests are sets of values used by a health professional to interpret a set of … Wikipedia
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Red blood cell — Human red blood cells (6 8μm) Red blood cells (abbreviated RBCs; also referred to as erythrocytes or simply, as red cells[1]) are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate organism s principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the… … Wikipedia
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