The brown tree snake is a nocturnal, rear-fanged colubrid, possessing two small, grooved fangs at the rear of the mouth. Due to the placement of the fangs and their grooved rather than hollow architecture, the venom is difficult to convey into a bite on a human, and thus is only delivered in small doses.
Thrombocytopenia is a blood disease characterized by an abnormally low number of platelets in the bloodstream. The normal amount of platelets is usually between 150,000 and 450,000 cells per microliter of blood. A microliter is an amount equal to one one-millionth of a liter (a liter is almost equal to a quart).
Essential Thrombocythemia. Essential thrombocythemia (ET) Is one of a related group of blood cancers known as âmyeloproliferative neoplasmsâ (MPNs) in which cells in the bone marrow that produce the blood cells develop and function abnormally.