Hemolysis

Introduction: Hemolysis

Description of Hemolysis

Hemolysis: Destruction or death of red blood cells (abnormally).

Hemolysis: Alteration, dissolution, or destruction of red blood cells in such a manner that hemoglobin is liberated into the medium in which the cells are suspended, e.g., by specific complement-fixing antibodies, toxins, various chemical agents, tonicity, alteration of temperature. SYN: erythrocytolysis, erythrolysis, hematolysis. [hemo- + G. lysis, destruction]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Hemolysis: destruction of red blood cells, with the liberation of hemoglobin into the plasma.
Source: CRISP

Hemolysis: The destruction of ERYTHROCYTES by many different causal agents such as antibodies, bacteria, chemicals, temperature, and changes in tonicity.
Source: MeSH 2007

Hemolysis: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Hemolysis:

• Alteration
• Red
• Blood (1783 causes)
• Blood symptoms (2297 causes)
• Blood disease
• Blood disorder
• Hemoglobin
• Medium
• Specific
• Specific disease

Terms associated with Hemolysis:

Related Topics

• Anemia, Hemolytic
• Osmotic Fragility

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Hemolysis

• Pathologic Processes
• Antigen-Antibody Reactions

Source - MeSH 2007

• cytolysis

Source - CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Hemolysis

The following list attempts to classify Hemolysis into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms
  • Pathologic Processes
    • Hemolysis

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Biological Phenomena, Cell Phenomena, and Immunity
  • Immunity
    • Antigen-Antibody Reactions
      • Hemolysis

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