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Anemia
Anemia is an inadequate rate of hemoglobin in the blood. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Anemia is the complete blood count, a hemoglobin below 11 grams per liter.
Anemia is not necessarily a lack of red blood cells. You can have a normal number of red blood cells, they are too small: a shortage of hemoglobin. Conversely, you can have red blood cells too big, apparently insufficient in number, whereas the hemoglobin may be normal: there is no anemia.
These parameters are identified on the blood count for red cells or erythrocytes or RBCs, or Hb hemoglobin, MCV, which defined the mean corpuscular volume and thus its size, which defined the MCH rates mean corpuscular hemoglobin, ie the a red blood cell contains about as hemoglobin. Read the rest of this entry »