Guest guest Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 a, When I looked up anemia in Stedman's Lab book under microcytic I found microcytic hypochromic. I believe your doc is not thinking about what chromic means and has gotten the wrong prefix. Hypochromic anemia is referring to " decrease in light absorption with a shift in wavelength to a lower wavelength " (per SEMD). I believe that is the word he is looking for to go with microcytic rather than microchromic. Just my thoughts, Margaret >>> pclark@... 07/22/03 10:07PM >>> Patient with microcytic (s/l " microchromic " ) anemia. I cannot document this word and am guessing that she means normochromic. Anybody seen this combination before? Gogle shows only 2 hits. Thanks! --------------------------------- a in Maine BA English Career Step Grad Total eMed - 8/19/02 Multispecialty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 Patient with microcytic (s/l " microchromic " ) anemia. I cannot document this word and am guessing that she means normochromic. Anybody seen this combination before? Gogle shows only 2 hits. Thanks! --------------------------------- a in Maine BA English Career Step Grad Total eMed - 8/19/02 Multispecialty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 Thanks, Margaret and Sylvia. That does sound right! --------------------------------- a in Maine BA English Career Step Grad Total eMed - 8/19/02 Multispecialty Re: Anemia > a, When I looked up anemia in Stedman's Lab book under microcytic I found microcytic hypochromic. I believe your doc is not thinking about what chromic means and has gotten the wrong prefix. Hypochromic anemia is referring to " decrease in light absorption with a shift in wavelength to a lower wavelength " (per SEMD). I believe that is the word he is looking for to go with microcytic rather than microchromic. Just my thoughts, Margaret > > >>> pclark@... 07/22/03 10:07PM >>> > Patient with microcytic (s/l " microchromic " ) anemia. I cannot document this word and am guessing that she means normochromic. Anybody seen this combination before? Gogle shows only 2 hits. > > Thanks! > > --------------------------------- > a in Maine > BA English > Career Step Grad > Total eMed - 8/19/02 > Multispecialty > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 22, 2003 Report Share Posted July 22, 2003 That sounds right from a lab viewpoint also. BTW, in plain English hypochromic means that as you view the cells on the slide as part of a peripheral smear, there isn't as much color (in this case red) in the cells and they appear sort of faded out in comparison with normal red cells. HTH! Sylvia Roller M-TEC Student - Session 5-6 gentlsong@... AIM: Jntlsong > a, When I looked up anemia in Stedman's Lab book under > microcytic I found microcytic hypochromic. I believe your doc is > not thinking about what chromic means and has gotten the wrong > prefix. Hypochromic anemia is referring to " decrease in light > absorption with a shift in wavelength to a lower wavelength " (per > SEMD). I believe that is the word he is looking for to go with > microcytic rather than microchromic. Just my thoughts, Margaret > >>>> pclark@... 07/22/03 10:07PM >>> > Patient with microcytic (s/l " microchromic " ) anemia. I cannot > document this word and am guessing that she means normochromic. > Anybody seen this combination before? Gogle shows only 2 hits. > > Thanks! > > --------------------------------- > a in Maine > BA English > Career Step Grad > Total eMed - 8/19/02 > Multispecialty > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Hi a, I found this on the net. Microcytic = Small red blood cells. Microchromic = Inadequate color of red blood cells. CBC: microcytic, microchromic anemia. So, it's discribing what the anemia is by using those two words separated by a comma. It was typed just like you see it above. hope this helps, Ashton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 Thank you, Ashton. I was discouraged by the small number of hits Google turned up, so when I could not document the term in any " reliable " source, I did not look any closer. Guess I should have! Thanks for going to the trouble. a Re: Anemia > Hi a, > > I found this on the net. > > Microcytic = Small red blood cells. > Microchromic = Inadequate color of red blood cells. > > CBC: microcytic, microchromic anemia. > > So, it's discribing what the anemia is by using those two words > separated by a comma. It was typed just like you see it above. > > hope this helps, > > Ashton > > > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE send a blank email to NMTC-unsubscribe > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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