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Hematology A regionally popular term for a peripheral blood smear, which has been layered with multiple drops of blood, allowing the glass slide to dry between layerings; TPs are used to identify certain blood-borne infections–eg, babesiosis, borreliosis, malaria. Cf Thin prep, ThinPrep™.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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