Translation of "Blutkuchen" in English

No blood pie, no examining my behavior over the last year to see if I measure up to Klingon standards.

After the blood had coagulated, the serum was obtained from the blood clot by centrifugation.

Whole blood, for example, can be centrifuged to separate serum and blood clots.

And if I'm correct, many Klingon families traditionally serve blood pie on the Day of Honor.

That is to say, the whole blood 20 can be separated into the plasma 24 and the coagulum 26 .

A blood clot then forms at the site containing stem cells.

During centrifugation, the separator migrates through the serum phase and floats on the blood clot.

However, this is a problem, in particular when using small sample volumes; in addition the separation of supernatant from the so-called blood clot which is sedimented by the centrifugation is not always easy.

With this pipetting, however, there is generally the problem that this procedure has to be done extremely carefully, since there is a risk that, during the pipetting, the coagulum at the vessel base is touched and, as a result, non-plasma constituents are also pipetted.

In particular, in the case of a blood sample, these at least two constituents can comprise the already mentioned blood plasma and also corpuscular portions of the blood sample (coagulum).

In the tube, the sample is typically centrifuged before further analysis steps, so that a blood precipitate, in which all the cellular constituents of the blood sample are concentrated, is formed at the lower end of the tube.

This can be particularly advantageous, particularly if no gel is situated in the sample tube as the distinction by way of the position of gel and coagulum relative to one another is not possible in this case.

Virtually no radiation can be passed at both wavelengths in the phase of the coagulum phase type, and so the transmissivity can be extremely low.

In the phase of the whole blood phase type, only a small portion of the radiation can be passed at both wavelengths, and so the transmissivity can be comparatively low, but higher than in the case of the phase of the coagulum phase type.

In the case of a very low transmissivity, or else in the case where the light of both wavelengths is blocked completely, it can be possible to reliably deduce the coagulum phase type.

This can account for the fact that although whole blood can be slightly more transmissive than coagulum, it can be less transmissive than gel.

In the case of an unmixed sample, i.e., for example, a centrifuged sample, the coagulum which can be the densest material present can typically be arranged between the gel and the closed or lower end of the sample tube.

Rather, the constituents of the whole blood, i.e., in particular, plasma on the one hand and cellular constituents on the other hand, can be separated into phases of the plasma and coagulum phase types.

Due to the density thereof, the gel 22 can arrange itself between the coagulum 26 and the plasma 24 .

Only if the determined phase of the coagulum phase type assumes a comparatively small part of the overall extent of all solid or liquid phases, the assumption that the sample was in fact separated on purpose, i.e., for example centrifuged, can be made with sufficient reliability.

By way of example, to the extent the three different phase types, of which one phase can have the coagulum phase type, were identified, the procedure described above can render it possible to prevent a sample from being classified as unmixed even though in fact it was merely stored for a relatively long time.

A coagulum phase can form below the gel only in the case of active separation, for example by centrifugation, wherein the gel can be removed from the closed end of the sample tube.