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Classification 2025 Winter Edition

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Hemic and Lymphatic Systems

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Reference Works. General Works Hematologic Diseases. Hematopoietic System Hematologic Neoplasms (General). Lymphoma Lymphatic System. Mononuclear Phagocyte System

  • Classify general works on the hemic and lymphatic systems and their diseases in children in WS 300-305.
  • Classify works on hemic and lymphatic disease nursing and nursing of patients with specific hemic or lymphatic diseases in WY 152.5.

Reference Works. General Works
WH 1

Organizations. Societies (General or not elsewhere classified) (Cutter from name of organization or society) (Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)


Includes membership lists and administrative reports issued serially or separately. Classify directories in WH 22. Classify other serials issued by societies in W1. For academies and institutes, see WH 23-24.
WH 5

Collected works by several authors

WH 7

Collected works by individual authors

WH 9

Addresses. Essays. Lectures

WH 11

History (Table-G)

WH 11.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)

WH 13

Dictionaries. Encyclopedias
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 15

Classification. Terminology
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 16

Tables. Statistics. Surveys (Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 16.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 17

Atlases. Pictorial works

Classify atlases limited to a particular part of the system here also.
WH 18

Education

Classify here works about education.
WH 18.2

Educational materials
(Monographs and Serials)

Classify here educational materials, e.g., outlines, questions and answers, programmed instruction, computer-assisted instruction, etc., regardless of format. Classify textbooks, regardless of format, by subject.
WH 19

Schools, departments and faculties of hematology (Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

Include here works on the history of schools. Classify courses of study, college catalogs, etc., in W 19.5.
WH 19.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 20

Research (General)

Classify here works about research in general. Classify works about research on a particular subject by subject.
WH 21

Hematology as a profession. Ethics. Peer review

WH 22

Directories (Table-G)

WH 22.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 23

Collective laboratories, academies, institutes, etc.

WH 24

Individual laboratories, academies, institutes, etc. (Cutter from name of institution)

WH 24.5

Blood banks (Table-G)

Classify works on blood banking in WH 460.    
WH 24.51

General coverage (Not Table-G)

WH 25

Laboratory manuals. Technique

Classify works on hematologic tests in QY 400-490.
WH 26

Equipment and supplies

Classify catalogs in W 26.
WH 26.5

Informatics. Electronic data processing. Computers (General)

Classify works on use for special subjects by subject.
WH 27

Collective hospitals, clinics, etc. (Table-G)

WH 27.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)

WH 28

Individual hospitals, clinics, etc. (Cutter from name of hospital) (Table-G)

WH 28.5

Collective museums, exhibitions, etc.

WH 28.6

Individual museums, exhibitions, etc. (Cutter from name of museum, etc.) (Table-G)

WH 32

Laws (Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 32.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 33

Discussion of law (Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 33.1

General coverage (Not Table-G)
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 39

Handbooks. Resource guides
(Monographs and Serials)

WH 100

Blood (General or not elsewhere classified)

Classify works on hematology and hematologic diseases here. Classify works on hematologic diseases alone in WH 120.
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Hematologic Diseases. Hematopoietic System
WH 120

Hematologic diseases (General or not elsewhere classified)

WH 140

Hematopoietic system and hematopoiesis. Blood cells (General)

Classify material on blood chemical analysis in QY 450.
WH 150

Erythrocytes

WH 155

Anemia

Classify works on neonatal anemia in WS 420; on splenic anemia in WH 600.
WH 160

Hypochromic anemia

WH 165

Macrocytic anemia

WH 170

Hemolytic anemia

Classify works on favism in WA 700; on kernicterus in WL 362.
WH 173

Sickle cell anemia

WH 175

Aplastic anemia

WH 180

Polycythemia. Polycythemia vera

WH 190

Hemeproteins. Hematoporphyrins. Heme

WH 200

Leukocytes. Leukocyte disorders (General)

WH 220

Lymphocytes

Classify works on disorders of lymphocytes in WH 200.  
WH 250

Leukemia

WH 260

Lymphoid  leukemia

WH 265

Myeloid  leukemia

WH 300

Blood platelets

WH 305

Hemostasis

WH 310

Physiology of blood coagulation. Blood coagulation factors

Classify works on blood coagulation disorders in WH 322-325.
WH 311

Fibrinolysis and associated blood proteins

Classify general works on blood proteins in WH 410.  
WH 312

Hemorrhagic disorders (General)

Classify works on blood platelet disorders in WH 300.
[WH 314]

[This number not used]

Classify works on purpura in WH 322.
[WH 315]

[This number not used]

Classify works on thrombocytopenic purpura in WH 322.
[WH 320]

[This number not used]

Classify works on hyperglobulinemic purpura in WH 322.
WH 322

Blood coagulation disorders (General)

WH 325

Hemophilia. Hemarthrosis

WH 380

Bone marrow. Bone marrow cells

Cf. WH 175  Anemias; WH 180  Polycythemia vera.
WH 382

Bone marrow transplantation

WH 383

Hematopoietic stem cells.  Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

WH 385

Bone marrow diseases

WH 400

Plasma. Serum. Blood proteins. Blood protein disorders

Classify works on blood chemical analysis in QY 450-490; on inborn errors of protein metabolism in QU 265. Cf. WH 540  Multiple myeloma. Classify blood proteins associated with fibrinolysis in WH 311.  
WH 420

Blood group antigens. Blood group incompatibility (General)

Classify works on blood typing in QY 415; on forensic examination in W 791.
WH 425

Rh-Hr blood group system. Fetal erythroblastosis

Classify works on kernicterus in WL 362.
WH 450

Blood substitutes

WH 460

Blood banking

Classify material on blood banks in WH 24.5; on blood transfusion in WB 356.
WH 470

Blood donation. Blood donors

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Hematologic Neoplasms (General). Lymphoma
WH 490

Hematologic neoplasms (General)

Classify works on hematologic neoplasms in general here. Classify bone marrow neoplasms in WH 385.   

WH 500

Hodgkin disease

WH 525

Lymphoma

Classify here works which deal collectively with Leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and/or Lymphoma.
WH 540

Plasma cell neoplasms

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Lymphatic System. Mononuclear Phagocyte System
WH 600

Spleen

WH 650

Mononuclear phagocyte system

WH 700

Lymphatic system

WH 720

Lymphatic diseases (General)