blood crisis

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blood crisis

[′bləd ‚krī·səs]

(medicine)

The sudden appearance of large numbers of nucleated erythrocytes in the circulating blood.

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The blood crisis was revealed at the Royal Orthopaedie Hospital, Birmingham which takes major surgery cases from all parts of the Region.

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The blood crisis of two decades ago, which cost Canadians hundreds of millions of dollars and which led to the demise of the Red Cross involvement in the blood banks, was directly related to infected homosexuals giving blood.

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Red Cross officials say an infusion of type O-negative and other donations could avert a blood crisis during the slow summer months.