What's the difference between hematology and sematology?

Hematology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which treats of the blood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
  • (2) Four of the nine patients failed to show any clinical or hematological improvement.
  • (3) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
  • (4) Eleven had hematological disorders, and 12 received steroids (sometimes with immunosuppressive or cytotoxic drugs).
  • (5) These cycles of treatment were repeated as soon as the hematologic restoration was complete.
  • (6) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
  • (7) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
  • (8) To exclude influences other than time on the outcome of the reactions, all the material was taken from hematologically normal persons.
  • (9) It is of advantage for the staff of the enlarged blood bank to perform some degree of clinical activity, to facilitate discussion of clinical and technical problems relating to hematological disorders in general.
  • (10) We evaluated clinical effects and toxicities of a combination treatment with cefminox (CMNX) and fosfomycin (FOM) for infections complicated with hematological disorders in 56 patients.
  • (11) A study was conducted in a sample of 140 children with sickle cell anemia to evaluate the relationship between hematological variables (%HbF, %HbA2, %Hb, and mean cell volume) and disease severity.
  • (12) Adverse hematologic effects which could be attributed to splenectomy in these patients were confined to two patients who developed marked thrombocytosis.
  • (13) Despite the presence of splenic myeloid metaplasia, splenectomy did not impair the patient's hematologic status.
  • (14) Hematologic indices in wolves older than 24 weeks were comparable to those of the adult domestic dog; however, PCV, hemoglobin concentration, and RBC counts were higher.
  • (15) Such properties, as assessed by the H*1 hematology analyzer, are very useful in distinguishing these two common types of microcytic anemia.
  • (16) A non-randomized study was carried out in the Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, to investigate the (hematologic) toxicity and antitumor response of patients with advanced breast cancer treated with intensive chemotherapy in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF).
  • (17) In contrast to the generally grave clinical manifestations of the patients described in previous publications documenting erythrophagocytosis, this patient lacked a concomitant hematologic deterioration or serious systemic illness.
  • (18) Hematological side effects of neuroleptic drugs occur infrequently but remain a potential cause of serious toxicity.
  • (19) Hematologic toxicity was comparable in both treatment arms, with 80% of patients experiencing grade 3 or 4 neutropenia or thrombocytopenia.
  • (20) The diagnosis has usually been made only at autopsy, and early surgical intervention has often been withheld because of the patient's precarious hematological status.

Sematology


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.

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