Diagnostics CH 7 Clinical Labs

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Sensitivity

Detects sick people ✅ (few false negatives)

purpose:To catch sick people so they get treatment and aren’t missed.

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Specificity

Detects healthy people ✅ (few false positives)

purpose:To avoid wrongly labeling healthy people as sick, so they don’t get unnecessary treatment.

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Neutrophil

produced in the bone marrow, where it matures and waits to be called into action

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Neutrophil

the normal life span of any neutrophil is about 10 days