Test category · Laboratory

Blood & haematology

Counts and appearance of the cells in blood, haemoglobin and its variants, red-cell survival and the bone marrow that makes them.

Tests with a page

Medical test

ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate)

Medical test

Ferritin test

Medical test

Full blood count

Medical test

Iron studies

Medical test

Vitamin B12 and folate

Concepts covered by those pages

Complete blood count CBC, FBCErythrocyte sedimentation rate ESR

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Haemoglobin (Hb) · also: hemoglobin Laboratory test
  • Haematocrit (Hct, PCV) · also: hematocrit, packed cell volume Laboratory test
  • Red blood cell count (RBC) · also: red cell count Laboratory test
  • White blood cell count (WBC) · also: white cell count, leukocyte count Laboratory test
  • Platelet count (PLT) Laboratory test
  • Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) · also: mean cell volume Laboratory test
  • Mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH) Laboratory test
  • Mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) Laboratory test
  • Red cell distribution width (RDW) Laboratory test
  • Mean platelet volume (MPV) Laboratory test
  • Neutrophil count · also: neutrophils Laboratory test
  • Lymphocyte count · also: lymphocytes Laboratory test
  • Monocyte count · also: monocytes Laboratory test
  • Eosinophil count · also: eosinophils Laboratory test
  • Basophil count · also: basophils Laboratory test
  • Immature granulocytes (IG) Laboratory test
  • Reticulocyte count · also: retics Laboratory test
  • Reticulocyte percentage Laboratory test
  • Reticulocyte haemoglobin (Ret-He, CHr) Laboratory test
  • Nucleated red blood cell count (nRBC) Laboratory test
  • Peripheral blood smear · also: blood film Pathology
  • Blood film morphology · also: red cell morphology Pathology
  • Haemoglobin electrophoresis · also: hemoglobin electrophoresis, haemoglobinopathy screen Laboratory test
  • Haemoglobin fractionation · also: HPLC haemoglobin analysis Laboratory test
  • Sickle cell screening · also: sickle solubility test, sickledex Laboratory test
  • G6PD activity (G6PD) · also: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase Laboratory test
  • Osmotic fragility Laboratory test
  • Erythropoietin (EPO) Laboratory test
  • Haptoglobin Laboratory test
  • Direct antiglobulin test (DAT) · also: direct Coombs test Laboratory test
  • Indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) · also: indirect Coombs test Laboratory test
  • Cold agglutinins Laboratory test
  • Heinz body test Laboratory test
  • Flow cytometry · also: immunophenotyping by flow cytometry Laboratory test
  • Bone marrow aspirate · also: marrow aspirate Diagnostic procedure
  • Bone marrow biopsy · also: trephine biopsy Diagnostic procedure
  • Marrow cytogenetics Genetic / molecular
  • Leukaemia and lymphoma immunophenotyping · also: leukemia immunophenotyping Laboratory test
  • Minimal residual disease testing (MRD) · also: measurable residual disease Laboratory test
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