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What does hemolysis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.
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Intravascular hemolysis is the destruction of red blood cells in the circulation with the release of cell contents into the plasma.
These serum specimens were anicteric and showed no evidence of lipemia or hemolysis.
This process, which he called hemolysis, was analogous to bacteriolysis and also required complement.
Not all patients who develop the antibody will undergo red blood cell hemolysis.
This is presumptive evidence of chronic hemolysis if the reticulocytosis is sustained.
Heated portion of culture should produce no hemolysis because hemolysin is thermolabile.

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