One of the most common forms of liver disease is due to chronic __________.

Macrocytosis in patients with cirrhosis and obstructive jaundice can be differentiated from the macrocytes seen in megaloblastic anemia because of:

The presence of __________ on a peripheral blood smear often indicates marrow infiltration by a tumor.

What is the function of opsonins?

Iron deficiency in patients with chronic liver disease is due to:

At onset of disease, essential thrombocythemia will present with a _____________ anemia.

When a leukemia is suspected in a patient, what laboratory test should be required for the initial diagnosis?

A 49-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for easy bruising and menorrhagia. She had evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation. Her white blood cell count is 3 x 10^9/L with 95% large, atypical mononuclear cells and some atypical bilobed cells. Many of these cells are packed with larger, purple-staining granules; some have multiple Auer rods; and all are strongly peroxidase-positive. What is the diagnosis?

TdT terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase is found in 90% of acute __________ leukemia.

The presence of Auer rods in the cytoplasm of cells rules out __________.