hemolysis

Also known as haemolysis

thumb|170px|A red blood cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to move into the cell thumb|170px|A red blood cell in a hypertonic solution, causing water to move out of the cell

Key facts

Medical condition (new).name: Hemolysis
Medical condition (new).synonym: Haemolysis (alternative spelling), hematolysis, erythrolysis, or erythrocytolysis
Medical condition (new).image: HEMOLYSIS.jpg
Medical condition (new).image_size: 305
Medical condition (new).specialty: Pathology
Medical condition (new).complications: Kidney failure, kidney disease
Medical condition (new).causes: Osmosis

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: lysis

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described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Commons category: Hemolysis
health specialty: pathology
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000294
NCI Thesaurus ID: C37965
destroyed: red blood cell

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Encyclopedic overview

21 sections

Contents

Etymology
Inside the body
Parasitic hemolysis
HELLP, pre-eclampsia, or eclampsia
Hemolytic disease of the newborn
Hemolytic anemia
<span id="HemolyticCrisis"></span> Hemolytic crisis
Toxic agent ingestion or poisoning
Space hemolysis
Intrinsic causes
Extrinsic causes
Intravascular hemolysis
Extravascular hemolysis
Outside the body
From specimen collection
{{anchor|Mechanical blood processing during surgery}}From mechanical blood processing during surgery
{{anchor|In microbiology}}From bacteria culture
Nomenclature
Complications
References
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thumb|170px|A red blood cell in a hypotonic solution, causing water to move into the cell thumb|170px|A red blood cell in a hypertonic solution, causing water to move out of the cell

Hemolysis or haemolysis (), also known by several other names, is the rupturing (lysis) of red blood cells (erythrocytes) and the release of their contents (cytoplasm) into surrounding fluid (e.g. blood plasma). Hemolysis may occur in vivo or in vitro.

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