| peripheral blood |
The fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of an animal. Peripheral blood carries nourishment and oxygen to and brings away waste products from all parts of the body.
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| peripheral blood |
Blood circulating in the body as opposed to bone marrow. Peripheral blood usually is withdrawn from an arm vein or central catheter.
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| peripheral blood progenitor c.’s |
stem cells found in the peripheral blood rather than the bone marrow; their numbers can be artificially increased by exposure to hematopoietic growth factors so that they can be extracted before myeloablative chemotherapy and later infused as an autologous bone marrow transplantation.
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| peripheral blood smear |
SYN: blood smear .
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