Complete blood count

Vlad the Impaler: The Original Dracula Dracula. Everybody knows who that is. He inspires terror in everybody's heart. He is the blood sucking monster that haunted Transylvania. He is an iconic legend that has inspired a countless amount of classic movies and novels to this day. However you may be surprised to know that he is not pure fiction. Bram Stoker the author of “Dracula” based his novel off of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes or “Vlad the impaler” as he was called as a result of his…

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson was a brilliant, enticing read. It is definitely the most interesting, multi-layered vampire story I have ever read. It provided the genre with such unique and authentic qualities, allowing Matheson to impregnate a unique believability of these vampires into my mind. Robert Neville, the protagonist of the novel, is the only survivor of a devastating pandemic which plagued the rest of the population with a form of vampirism. Neville spends much of his days…

Succubi were female demons who were thought to seduce men and drink their blood. The Greeks and Romans also believed in a male counterpart to the succubi, called an incubus, who did much the same to women (1st source). There were also accounts of incubi and succubi in Hebrew mythology, though they were also believed to have been…

According to Monica Hesse, author of Girl In the Blue Coat, “Mina’s storyline draws from Lydia van Nobelen-Riezouw, though not a member of the underground camera, a loosely joined network of professional photographers, did live in an apartment abutting the Schouwburg’s rear courtyard, and Lydia did take photographs of the Jewish prisoners when she recognised a childhood friend among them.” But, what I’m actually here to talk about, is what motivated Mina to take pictures of everything. Mina…

snow ☺ (simile), is remarkably strong, and has a strange obsession with blood. In Dracula, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, goes to visit Count Dracula in his castle in Transylvania. He ends up figuring out that Count Dracula is a vampire escapes. Jonathan ends up in the hospital with brain fever, while Count Dracula makes his way to London on a cargo ship. Jonathan’s fiancé’s friend, Lucy, ends up getting bitten by Count Dracula and becomes ill then eventually dies. The three most essential,…

Introduction Primary renal tumors account for approximately 2% of all canine cancers.11 Tissues of origin include the renal epithelium, renal mesenchyme or embryonal tissue of mixed origin.1 Roughly 10% of primary renal tumors originate from embryonal pluripotential blastema, which include Wilms’ tumor, nephroblastoma, and embryonal nephroma.11 The majority of diagnosed renal tumors occur in older dogs; however, nephroblastoma is unique in that it is seen in juveniles. The mean age for…

Immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), is a blood disorder that is characterized by the destruction of the blood platelets caused by the presence of antiplatelet antibodies. This bleeding disorder is not associated with a systemic disease. It’s typically chronic in adults, but self-limited in children. The trouble with this there is not defining diagnostic that presents this disease clearly, instead the diagnosis is presented through the exclusion of other variables. Typically, patients have…

and tissue need oxygen. If there is too little iron in the blood, it can causes a decrease in the amount of red cells in the blood that delivers oxygen to the body. Anemia is a common diagnostic term describing a decrease in number in function of erythrocytes or red blood cells (RBCs), and is the most widespread hematological disorder. In order to determine types of anemia, the anemia has to be classified by preforming a complete blood count along with other test. These test help provide a…

(CVA), also referred to as a “stroke” is a life-threatening medical condition that occurs when there is diminished blood flow being delivered to the brain. The two major types of strokes are ischemic and hemorrhagic. An ischemic stroke occurs when there is an obstruction in the brain caused by a blood clot and a hemorrhagic stroke results in sudden bleeding in the brain when a blood vessel ruptures. National Institute of Neurological Disorders [NIND] (2011) reports that nearly 80 percent of…

common symptom of every type of anemia. The fatigue is caused by a decrease in red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. Other anemia symptoms due to decreased oxygen carrying capacity are: shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, coldness in hands and feet, pale skin, and chest pain ("What Is Iron-Deficiency Anemia?," 2014). The erythrocytopenia causes the heart to exert more effort to pump oxygen rich blood to the tissues. This extra effort can lead to arrhythmias, heart murmurs,…