buffy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of buffy
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The buffy coat is the portion of blood that is made up of its leukocytes and platelets.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
True or false: The buffy coat is the portion of a blood sample that is made up of its proteins.
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Above the buffy coat is the blood plasma, normally a pale, straw- colored fluid, which constitutes the remainder of the sample.
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This layer is referred to as the buffy coat because of its color; it normally constitutes less than 1 percent of a blood sample.
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Throat and belly white, breast grayish; sides, breast and sometimes belly, washed with sulphur; back olive-green, a tint lighter than in No. 463; lower mandible whitish; wing-bars buffy.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
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