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Hematology Crossword Puzzle
— CREATED BY DAVID STEENSMA, MD —
Across
1. (Pop)ular beverage made with
Secret Formula 7X
8. Russian leader before 1917
12. Syn. for Osler-Weber-Rendu
syndrome and omacetaxine
15. Coronavirus-induced resp.
disease that caused mass panic in
2002-2003
16. Pennsylvania state uni. that
confusingly shares the name of
another US state
17. Units of electrical resistance
18. Humans can live about three
months without food, three days
without water, but only three minutes
without this
19. Deficiency of this “Fletcher
factor” prolongs the Partial Thromboplastin
Time, but is clinically inconsequential
21. Stat. for lymphoma survivor
Jon Lester (Boston Red Sox fans
found this number disturbingly
high in 2012)
22. Cleopatra’s undoing
23. Musher’s transport (and –
spoiler alert! – identity of Kane’s
“Rosebud”)
24. Unflattering booking shot
25. Latin equiv. of “Yadda, yadda,
yadda”
28. Life-threatening emergency
caused by malignant cells in the
pericardial sac
31. Red dye important to hematologists,
named after the Ancient
Greek goddess of the dawn
35. Neighbor of a Vietnamese
36. Rx instruction: take with each
meal
37. Breakthrough immunosuppres-
sant isolated from Norwegian soil
fungus by a Sandoz biologist in 1969
41. Fugitive head of the Ugandan
Lord’s Resistance Army (and improbable
2012 YouTube notable)
42. Corp. boardroom bigwig
43. Bullwinkle, for one
44. Hard work – months of this
might result in an NIH R01 grant
submission, which then, sadly, has a
~90% chance of rejection
46. He spied the Land of Canaan
48. Unit equal to 14 pounds avoirdupois
in Great Britain
51. Constellation bear
53. Most trifling; rhymes with a
type of fungus
57. Tonic’s partner, made from juniper
berries
58. Symbol for measure of the
conc. of uranium
60. Cell type that expands with
t(15;17) PML-RARA translocation
64. Sphere
65. Financial watchdog org. that
charged Martha Stewart with insider
trading of ImClone stock
66. Dropsy
67. Aggressive lymphomas with
both a MYC translocation and BCL2
rearrangement
69. Starting at the beginning of
the calendar yr. and continuing to
the current day
72. Century-old professional soc.
for pulmonologists
73. Chief CNS neurotransmitter,
which Ativan and Valium augment
77. Wrigley Field flora
79. Tests that US H.S. drop-outs
can take to demonstrate academic
skills
80. Parasitic roundworm that is a
common cause of eosinophilia
84. Drowned river valley that remains
open to the sea; Kingsbridge
Estuary in England is an extreme
example
85. Eponym for rodshaped azurophilic
granule clumps found in myeloid
blasts
86. Filled one’s belly
87. Chip in some chips
88. “___ questions?”
89. It ebbs and flows
90. Ligand binding site
Down
1. US cable TV network that shows
Congressional debates and abundant
gavel banging
2. Sculls
3. Paper-thin brunch serving
4. Query
5. Aromatherapist’s substances
6. Break in the action
7. This was first thrown in someone’s
face in a comedy film way
back in 1909
8. Craggy peak; the highest hill in
Glastonbury, England
9. His name was a dirty word in
Atlanta in 1864
10. In France, a male friend; in the
USA, an abbrev. for a coronary
11. Acronym for the fan base of
the Boston baseball club; official citizenship
in this fictional country has
been offered (for a small fee) since
2004
12. How Scousers, Mancunians,
and Geordies spell the scientific
study of blood
13. Leech “venom” that makes
for efficient animal phlebotomy
Look for the solution in Monday’s issue.
14. Dark counterpart of comedy
20. Acronym for the time zone in
Seoul
26. Former name for the ETV6 oncogene
involved in t(12;21) translocation
in leukemia
27. Cambridge immunologist
who theorized that sudden infant
death syndrome is due to anaphylaxis
to dairy proteins – and gave his
name to a test for evaluating hemolytic
anemia
29. Rope-a-dope boxer
30. Yeats or Keats
32. Orchestra based in the largest
city in Wash.
33. Wall St. debut; Facebook’s
was a debacle
34. Designation used for a disease
that falls into a large category but
doesn’t meet more specific criteria;
e.g., a leukemia without a recurrent
translocation
37. The most popular FDR New
Deal agcy.
38. Nay’s opposite
39. US Federal holiday celebrated
since 1937 to honor an Italian sailor
who did not discover America
40. Kingdom
41. Word with mess or press
45. Surgically created connection
between an internal organ and the
body surface
47. “The One” – Elvish language
term for the supreme being in J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium
49. Louse-to-be
50. Opposite WSW
52. Cathedral recess
54. Cataract site
55. Device for emergent Dx and
Rx of cardiac arrhythmias, now
commonly seen in convention centers
and sports venues
56. Rheum. Disorder associated
with abnormal ANA and ENA testing
results
58. Gout of the great toe
59. Chain of amino acids
61. Brought back an employee
who was laid off
62. The FDA’s law enforcement
arm
63. Mouse catcher
68. Letter portion of the name
of a CD28-SuperMAB that caused
multiple organ failure in several
human volunteers at the lowest
Ph. I dose in 2006, prompting an
inquiry
70. “_____ We Almost Have It
All”, Whitney Houston?
71. Lab-based tissue disrupting
device
74. Seaweed-derived Petri dish
filler
75. Unit of digital information
76. Oscar winner Guinness who
played Obi-Wan
78. Quash, Presidentially
80. Warmed the bench
81. Intelligent parrot-like bird,
common in New Zealand, which
gives its name to a pretty good beer
82. Load from a lode
83. Fam. of proteins that are endogenous
inhibitors of apoptosis
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