blood disorders
Illnesses affecting circulation
Blood disorders are conditions affecting the blood's components or function—red cells, white cells, platelets, or plasma proteins.
Some impair oxygen transport (anemia, sickle cell disease), others affect clotting (hemophilia, thrombocytopenia), and still others involve abnormal cell production (leukemia, polycythemia).
The term covers inherited conditions, cancers, and acquired diseases: She was referred to a hematologist for her blood disorder.
- anemiaRed cell deficiency
- G6PD deficiencyInherited enzyme defect in erythrocytes
- hematologyScience of blood disorders
- leukemiaMalignancy of blood-forming tissues
- hematopoiesisBlood cell production process
bone marrow · lymphoma · thalassemia · bone marrow biopsy · bone marrow transplant · sickle cell disease · pernicious anemia · neutropenia · pale · sickle cell · bruising · weakness · coagulation · plasma · bleeding · veins · platelets · clotting
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- hematologybone marrow, bone marrow biopsy, leukemia, lymphoma, anemia
- bloodplasma, platelet, platelets, hemoglobin, RBC
- workplace hazardsstress, burnout, fire hazard, overwork, back pain
- blood testsCBC, CMP, hemoglobin, hematocrit, electrolytes
- chemical hazardspoisoning, neurotoxin, carcinogenicity, fumes, vapors
blood disordersheart disease
Malfunction of blood-pumping organ
neurological disorders · respiratory disorders · cardiovascular disease · liver disease