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Decks in this class (17)

DECALCIFICATION
Done after fixation,
Types of decalcifying agents,
Widely used for routine decalcifi...
26  cards
DEHYDRATION
Removal of intracellular and extr...,
Amount of dehydrating agent,
Commonly used dehydrating agents
34  cards
CLEARING
Aka alcoholization,
Removal of the dehydrating agent ...,
Makes the tissues translucent inc...
22  cards
WAX IMPREGNATION AND EMBEDDING
Replacing the clearing agent with...,
Impregnation aka,
Embedding aka
46  cards
BLOCKING AND TRIMMING
A step that goes hand in hand wit...,
Removal of excess wax,
To partially expose the tissue al...
4  cards
SECTIONING
Embedded tissue is trimmed and cu...,
3 essential parts of microtome,
Inventor of rocking microtome
58  cards
STAINING
Increased affinity to basic stains,
Increased affinity to acidic stains,
For h and edeparaffinize sections...
88  cards
STAINS
Polysaccharides bound to other su...,
Stains glycogen mucoproteins hyal...,
Intensity of pas proportional
34  cards
IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
Identification of specific or sel...,
Most commonly used antibody class...,
Most widely used enzyme labels
8  cards
ANTIGEN TUMOR MARKERS
Marker of,
Marker of carcinomas of lung brea...,
Colon and stomach cancers
44  cards
EXFOLIATIVE CYTOLOGY
Detection of this is used to iden...,
Inactivated x chromosome in 1 neu...,
Papanicolau stain is credited to
16  cards
GYNECOLOGIC SPECIMENS
Ideal specimen for studying the h...,
Most common for cancer screening,
Used in collecting specimen from ...
12  cards
HORMONAL CYTOLOGY
Produced by proliferating granulo...,
Estrogen acts upon,
Large polyhedral flat cells cytop...
38  cards
HISTOLOGY
Covers and lines up surfaces,
Cells are attached to a basement ...,
Free surface of epithelial tissue...
24  cards
PATHOLOGY
Pathos,
Divisions of pathology,
Frequent division to replace old ...
52  cards
BIOPSY
Exfoliative cytology,
Excisional biopsy,
Most reliable biopsy allows exami...
10  cards
RETENTION AND TURN OVER IN PATHOLOGY
Clinical pathology lab reports,
Autopsy forensic reports,
Surgical pathology and bm reports
10  cards

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