ASH News Daily - Saturday, December 10, 2011 - (Page A-6)
Page A–6
®
Hematology Crossword Puzzle
— created By david SteenSMa, Md —
Across
ACROSS
1. Thick lump or mass that forms
when cream solidifies (tastily, in
Devonshire) or when liquid blood
gels (catastrophically, inside a
blood vessel); in British English, a
stupid person
5. Products of fire, combustion, incineration
8. Medical students are often taught
to write daily progress notes for
hospitalized patients using this
“fatty-acid” format
11. Range topped by Mont Blanc
12. Biological orifices; also the harbor
city that was the “mouth” to Ancient
Rome
13. Histologic stain important for diagnosing
erythroleukemia [acronym]
14. An unruly Florida student at a
2007 John Kerry speech shouted to
a security guard, “Don’t ____ me,
bro!” — electrifyingly, he did not
get his wish
15. Without safety equipment, football
(soccer) players would often have
hematomas here
16. Internet acronym similar to L.O.L.;
also, an alternative name for a major
pituitary hormone that increases
post-menopause
17. Unfortunate event resulting
when 1-Across fills a coronary
artery [acronym]
19. American research university
that celebrated its 150th anniversary
this year; home of the Smoot
and the lucky George Eastman
plaque [acronym]
20. Enterococcus species resistant to
this >50 year-old antibiotic are a
growing public health problem,
and also make a lot of extra work
for hospital laundries
25. Switzerland’s Internet countrycode
top level domain
27. Organic compound resulting from
oxidation of ammonia, often called
carbamide (especially in Europe)
28. Charged particles fired by common
sci-fi beam weapons, e.g. the
cannons used by the Rebel Alliance
on Hoth to harry Imperial Star Destroyers
in “Star Wars Episode V:
The Empire Strikes Back”
30. ICAO code for Mesa Airlines of
Arizona, and the name of a village
in Surrey, England, between Guildford
and Aldershot
32. Noun paired with 2-Down in
a popular Steven Kellogg children’s
book
34. Frequency of the December ASH
Meeting
35. SI unit of time, equal to 10-18
of a
second, 1/24 of the atomic unit,
and the time it takes light to
travel the length of 3 hydrogen
atoms [abbrev.]
37. U.S. Federal Insurance program
for disabled persons — a common
payroll deduction [acronym]
39. Colloquial term for acceleration
forces experienced by test pilots
and stunt drivers
40. Tiny division of a lobe
43. RNA retrovirus of hematologic
importance common in Okinawa,
1. Thick lump or mass
that forms when cream
solidifies (tastily, in
Devonshire) or when
liquid blood gels
(catastrophically,
inside a blood vessel);
in British English, a
stupid person
5. Products of fire,
combustion,
incineration
Iran, and Jamaica [acronym]
46. Non-specific test value that increases
as a result of reduced RBC
zeta potential [acronym]
47. Route of administration of poison
to Prince Hamlet’s royal father, by
villainous Uncle Claudius
48. Hans Blix, who famously failed to
find WMDs in Iraq, was head of
this agency for 16 years [acronym]
50. A long-standing gap in Mendeleev’s
periodic table was filled
when this element was produced
artificially in 1937 [symbol]
8. Medical students are
often taught to write
daily progress notes for
hospitalized patients
using this "fatty-acid"
format
11. Range topped by
Mont Blanc
51. If you see someone collapse today
in an exciting Scientific Session, a
prompt thump to this bodily region
could be lifesaving
55. mRNA codon for leucine
56. The average RBC diameter is 7
thousands of this unit [abbrev.]
12. Biological orifices;
also the harbor city that
was the "mouth" to
Ancient Rome
13. Histologic stain
important for
diagnosing
erythroleukemia
[acronym]
57. Popular diet soda in the 1970s
that contained saccharin (recently
found not to be carcinogenic, despite
long-standing fears resulting
from flawed rodent experiments)
58. Procedure useful for evaluating obstructive
jaundice [acronym]
62. Scarlett O’Hara’s Georgia plantation,
named after an ancient sacred
hill in County Meath, Ireland
64. The first man on Fiji and Tonga, according
to Samoan mythology
65. Type of mid-calf length warm
weather trousers
14. An unruly Florida
student at a 2007 John
Kerry speech shouted
to a security guard,
"Dont ____ me, bro!"-electrifyingly,
he did
not get his wish
15. Without safety
equipment, football
(soccer) players would
often have hematomas
here
an alternative name for
a major pituitary
hormone that increases
post-menopause
66. Sadly, one of the major obstacles to
scientific cooperation and progress
67. Color gradations
68. Vessel supplying most of the small
bowel and the pancreas; unprovoked
thrombosis here should
trigger a hypercoagulability evaluation
[acronym]
69. Nickname for many universities
and for underappreciated
lab workers
17. Unfortunate event
resulting when 1Across
fills a coronary
artery [acronym]
67
ASH NEWS DAILY
1 2 3 4
11
14
17
20
21
27
30
31
35 36
40 41
47
50
55
57
64
65
68
58 59 60 61
62
66
69
Look for the solution in Sunday’s issue.
ing plant in the lilac and olive family
— means “spear” in Latin; the
Old English word for this type of
tree also meant “spear”
DOWN
1. Godfrey Hounsfield shared a 1979
Nobel Prize for developing this imaging
technique [acronym]
2. South American camelid notable for
its thin, flat, elliptical erythrocytes
16. Internet acronym
similar to L.O.L.; also,
3. Receptor found in retinal cells that
converts photons of light into a
chemical signal
4. Repeated syllable in the name of
an African biting fly that is a vector
for trypanosomiasis
5. Pulverized rock and glass spewed
by an erupting volcano; when Iceland’s
Eyjafjallajökull flung tons
of it skyward in 2010, air travel all
over Europe was disrupted
6. With “571,” the original name of
imatinib — and an acronym for its
mechanism of action
7. Sanskrit-derived language spoken
by more than 250 million
people in India
8. A class of mutation found in CLL
and exceptionally common in myelodysplasia
with ring sideroblasts
9. Kiln used to dry hops for brewing;
the urine of patients with methionine
malabsorption syndrome has
a similar odor
10. Fraxinus – the genus of this flower-
19. American research
university that
celebrated its 150th
anniversary this year;
home of the Smoot and
the lucky George
Eastman plaque
[acronym]
20. Enterococcus
species resistant to this
>50 year-old antibiotic
are a growing public
health problem, and
18. Helminth
21. Deficiency of this element can result
in sideroblastic anemia, leukopenia,
and neuropathy [symbol]
22. With culpa, a formal way of saying,
“my bad”
also make a lot of extra
work for hospital
laundries
12. Mac v10.7 is known as Lion, 10.6
was Snow Leopard, 10.5 just
plain Leopard
25. Switzerland's
Internet country-code
top level domain
the end, the ‘67 Montreal World’s
Fair where this puzzle author’s
parents met
44. Official language of a mostly-rural
nation sandwiched between Thailand
and Vietnam
27. Organic compound
resulting from
oxidation of ammonia,
often called carbamide
(especially in Europe)
23. Candied sweet potatoes that make
an appearance at many American
Thanksgiving dinners
24. Major North American professional
sports league that started the
2011 season in a lockout
26. Physician who codescribed hereditary
hemorrhagic telangiectasia,
polycythemia vera, and the platelet
45. In contrast to secondary erythrocytosis,
JAK2-mutant polycythemia
is said to be of this type
30. ICAO code for
Mesa Airlines of
Arizona, and the name
of a village in Surrey,
England, between
Guildford and
Aldershot
49. Web browsers have pop-up blockers
to decrease this type of unsolicited
annoyance, the devilish spawn
of Mad Men and their ilk
32. Noun paired with
2-Down in a popular
Steven Kellogg
children's book
29. Low serum levels of this element
can lead to cerebral edema [symbol]
30. What an Institutional Review
Board may finally do to a clinical
trial, often after much bureaucratic
deliberation and numerous queries
of varying relevance
28. Charged particles
fired by a common scifi
beam weapons, e.g.
the cannons used by
the Rebel Alliance on
Hoth to harry Imperial
Star Destroyers in Star
Wars Episode V: The
Emperor Strikes Back
52. Giant South American flightless
birds
53. Representation generated by a
camera, eye, or PET scanner
34. Frequency of the
December ASH
Meeting
54. Rocket company that was the
forerunner to SpaceDev, the firm
behind the first manned private
spaceflight in 2004
57. Microtubulestabilizing protein defective
in Alzeheimer dementia,
resulting in amyloid accumulation
59. Before CDs, DVDs, or iPods, phonograph
records once spun at 33
1/3, 45, or 78 [acronym]
35. SI unit of time,
equal to 10^-18 of a
second, 1/24 of the
atomic unit, and the
time it takes light to
travel the length of 3
hydrogen atoms
31. To develop a tolerance
33. In a 1990s comic book series, the
superhero alter ego of fictional firefighter
Ashley Quinn
36. Female demon said to seduce sleeping
men in their dreams; in Zoharistic
Kabbalah, Adam’s headstrong
first wife Lilith is said to have become
one after leaving Eden
38. Comparison treatment for metastatic
melanoma in a recent ipilimumab
registration trial
41. Acronym for the stadium where
Manchester United play football,
and for the 5th period of American
football games tied at the end
of regulation
42. The day when shelf life of a drug or
food ends [abbrev.]; with an -o on
60. Professional designation granted
in the United States to university
graduates with 3 years of work
experience who pass an exam
showing they are capable of administering
a sponsored research
program [acronym]
61. Irrational mathematical constant
that is a frequent obsession of
mnemonists; the 1897 Indiana
General Assembly seriously considered
legislation defining it arbitrarily
as 3.2, to save calculating
time
62. Family of 5-methylcytosine hydroxylating
enzymes frequently
mutated in myeloid neoplasms
63. The world’s largest hematology
organization (see also
5-Across, 30-Across, 10-Down,
and 33-Down)
51 52
42
32
37
43
48
33
38
44 45
49
53 54
56
63
34
39
46
18
22 23
24
12
15
19
25
28
29
26
5 6 7
Saturday, December 10, 2011
8 9 10
13
16
Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ASH News Daily - Saturday, December 10, 2011
ASH News Daily - Saturday, December 10, 2011
https://www.nxtbookmedia.com