Medical laboratory

A medical laboratory or  clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are usually done on laboratory specimens. This is to get information about the health of a patient. Labs perform tests on tissue, blood and other body fluids.Barbara H Estridge; Anna P Reynolds; Norma J Walters, ''Basic Medical Laboratory Techniques" (Albany, NY: Delmar Publishers, 2000), p. 4 Medical labs analyze data in five major categories. These are chemistry, immunology, hematology, microbiology and transfusion medicine.

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