In atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome, red blood cells can break apart as they squeeze past clots within small blood vessels. Anemia results if these cells are destroyed faster than the body can replace them.
Setting Definition. Setting is an environment or surrounding in which an event or story takes place. It may provide particular information about placement and timing, such as New York, America, in the year 1820. Setting could be simply descriptive like a lonely cottage on a mountain.
setpoint. 1  the desired value in a closed-loop feedback system, as in regulation of temperature or pressure. 2  the point at which a thermostat has been set, as for optimum efficiency. Physiology. an internal regulatory system for maintaining a relatively stable physiological condition in the face of changing external circumstances, as body temperature in a varying climate. Compare homeostasis.