consisting of members or elements of different kinds; of mixed character: a book of miscellaneous essays on American history. 2. having various qualities, aspects, or subjects: a miscellaneous discussion. Origin of miscellaneous.
exists and is an alternate of . When you store human blood and its components, there's little or no room for error. Red cells and whole blood, for instance, must be maintained strictly within the range of 1.0 to 6.0 degrees Celsius or 33.8 F to 42.8 F, with little or no tolerance for exceptions.
If later analyses will be done, the samples must be frozen at -70 C. Storage and transfer of whole blood samples. Samples should be refrigerated to 4 C immediately after collection. They can also be shipped in refrigerated packaging at 4 C. At that temperature they are stable for 7 days.