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Cells > Blood Cells > Blood Buffy Coat
Hemic and Immune Systems > Blood > Blood Cells > Blood Buffy Coat

Preferred term

Blood Buffy Coat  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The fraction of a blood sample, following CENTRIFUGATION, that is distinguished as a thin light-colored layer between the RED BLOOD CELLS, underneath it, and the PLASMA, above it. It is composed mostly of WHITE BLOOD CELLS and PLATELETS.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Buffy Coat, Blood

In other languages

  • French

  • Couche leuco-plaquettaire
  • Couche leucocytaire

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XVLBPD40-M

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