3.2 blood, tissue fluid & lymph

Question 1

(blood) blood consists of what yellow liquid?

Answer 1

plasma

Question 2

(blood) what does plasma contain?

Answer 2

water (90%)
dissolved glucose
amino acids
minerals
RBCs
WBCs
platelets
hormones
large plasma proteins

Question 3

(plasma proteins) what 3 large proteins does blood contain?

Answer 3

albumin
fibrinogen
globulins

Question 4

(plasma proteins) what does albumin do?

Answer 4

maintains osmotic balance

Question 5

(plasma proteins) what does fibrinogen do?

Answer 5

involved in clotting

Question 6

(plasma proteins) what are globulins involved in?

Answer 6

transport and the immune system

Question 7

(blood) blood transports oxygen and carbon dioxide to where?

Answer 7

respiring cells

Question 8

(blood) transports digested food from where?

Answer 8

the small intestine to cells

Question 9

(blood) transports nitrogenous waste from where?

Answer 9

cells to excretory organs

Question 10

(blood) transports platelets to where?

Answer 10

damaged areas

Question 11

(blood) transports cells and antibodies involved in what?

Answer 11

immune response

Question 12

(blood) transports what chemical messengers?

Answer 12

hormones

Question 13

(tissue fluid) surrounds cells and is made from what?

Answer 13

substances leaving blood plasma

Question 14

(tissue fluid) how do substances move out of capillaries into tissue fluid?

Answer 14

pressure filtration

Question 15

(tissue fluid) as blood flows through arterioles to capillaries what type of pressure is it under?

Answer 15

hydrostatic from the hearts contractions

Question 16

(tissue fluid) at the arterial end of the capillary hydrostatic pressure is what?

Answer 16

high - 4.6

Question 17

(tissue fluid) the high hydrostatic pressure at the arterial end does what?

Answer 17

forces blood out of the capillary

Question 18

(tissue fluid) the oncotic pressure is what at the arterial end?

Answer 18

lower than the hydrostatic

Question 19

(tissue fluid) at the venous end what is the hydrostatic pressure?

Answer 19

low - 2.3

Question 20

(tissue fluid) what is the oncotic pressure at the venous end?

Answer 20

3.3 - higher than hydrostatic

Question 21

(tissue fluid) at the venous end oncotic pressure is higher than hydrostatic so the fluid does what?

Answer 21

moves back into capillaries

Question 22

(tissue fluid) what percentage of tissue fluid returns to the blood?

Answer 22

90%

Question 23

(lymph) 10% of the fluid that doesn’t go back to the blood goes where?

Answer 23

into lymph capillaries

Question 24

(lymph) lymph has less what?

Answer 24

oxygen and nutrients

Question 25

(lymph) lymph has fatty acids from where?

Answer 25

the villi of the small intestine

Question 26

(lymph) lymph capillaries join to form what?

Answer 26

lymph vessels

Question 27

(lymph) the lymph is moved by what?

Answer 27

breathing and muscle contraction

Question 28

(lymph) what builds up in the lymph nodes?

Answer 28

lymphocytes

Question 29

(lymph) lymph nodes intercept what?

Answer 29

the bacteria digested by the phagocytes in the nodes

Question 30

(lymph) lymph returns to the blood via what?

Answer 30

the subclavian valves