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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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Not all patients who develop the antibody will undergo red blood cell hemolysis.
Darkening of the urine is most noticeable in the morning, either because the urine is more concentrated or there is increased hemolysis at night.
In cases of severe intravascular hemolysis, the binding capacity of haptoglobin is exceeded rapidly, and free hemoglobin is filtered by the glomeruli.
Splenectomy effectively arrests the extravascular hemolysis and prevents its long-term complications, such as cholelithiasis and aplastic crises.
These serum specimens were anicteric and showed no evidence of lipemia or hemolysis.
Chronic inhalation abuse may also cause bone marrow depression resulting in leukopenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, leukemia, and hemolysis.

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