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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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This process, which he called hemolysis, was analogous to bacteriolysis and also required complement.
Chronic inhalation abuse may also cause bone marrow depression resulting in leukopenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, leukemia, and hemolysis.
The venom consists of proteins, polypeptides, and enzymes that cause necrosis and hemolysis.
In cases of severe intravascular hemolysis, the binding capacity of haptoglobin is exceeded rapidly, and free hemoglobin is filtered by the glomeruli.
These serum specimens were anicteric and showed no evidence of lipemia or hemolysis.
This is presumptive evidence of chronic hemolysis if the reticulocytosis is sustained.

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