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.
Iron deficiency is one of the most common causes of anemia in the United States and worldwide. The three stages of iron deficiency are iron depletion (reduced stores), early iron deficiency anemia (depleted stores, normal MCV, and red cell morphology), and advanced iron deficiency anemia.