chiropractor(Noun) A health care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic, the hands on or hand-held instrumental movement of the bone structure of the body to improve the function of the joints and/or nervous system.
The values for serum iron, total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), and transferrin saturation are used to see if a low amount of iron in the body is from iron deficiency anemia or another condition. The values are also used to see whether a high amount of iron is due to hemochromatosis or another condition.
In iron deficiency anemia, the transferrin (which carries iron) is upâ âindicating the body needs more iron. In iron deficiency anemia, TIBC is higher- because of low stores in ferritin, reflecting the bodies efforts to produce more transferrin to bind up as much iron as possible. In chronic inflammation and disease anemia, the transferrin is low âbecause there is ample ironâbut itâs not readily available.