Blood Okorie Flashcards
how do lymphocytes and monocytes move
freely between blood and ct
where do all of the blood cell types originate?
in the CT of bone marrow
what is the chemical composition of plasma similar too?
interstitial fluid in ordinary CT
what percent of plasma is protein? lipoprotein?
7%-protein
10%-lipoprotein
what are the three main blood proteins found in plasma?
albumin
gamma globulins
fibrinogen
what protein in plasma maintains osmotic pressure
albumin
what protein in plasma is known as an antibody
gamma globulin
what is the clotting agent protein in plasma?
fibrinogen
what percent of blood are RBC
44%
what percent of blood are WBC
1%
what percent of blood are plasma
55%
3 different blood smear stains?
- leishman
- Wrights
- Giemsa (May-Grunwald-Giemsa)
what are biconcave discs that have no nucleus
erythrocytes
what is the size of an erythrocyte?
7.2 um (micrometers)
what do erythrocytes stain with eosin?
redish
main protein in erythrocyte is ?
oxyhemoglobin
O2 + Hemoglobin
life span of RBC
120 days
who has more blood count per unit of volume women or men
men, women have a period once a month, a lot of blood loss
how do RBC transport CO2
carbonic anhydrase
WHAT BLOOD IS THE UNIVERSAL DONOR?
O- (has no Rh factor to screw anything up)
which is the blood type that is the universal recipient
AB + (has Rh so nothing can screw it up, also has no antibodies to attack anything)
when you have antigens present on RBC and no antibodies you are
Rh positive
have no antigens and antibodies will produce if exposure happens
Rh negative
what is the definition of the Rh disease called ERYTHROBLASTOSIS
the RBC of the fetus are destroyed if they are Rh positive and the mother is Rh negative, her antigen will make antibodies that will attack the baby with RH because she doesn’t have that factor, and this can kill the SECOND baby
the treatment for erythroblastosis is Rhgam, why?
becuase it contains the antibodies for rh positive antigen, you inject it 72 hours after birth of Rh positive baby
what is it called when you have low levels of hemoglobin?
anemia
when you have an increase in the number of RBC and a decrease in plasma it is called?
polycythemia
or erythrocytosis
what holds the cytoskeleton together in RBC
spectrin
without it you can have- erythrocyte membrane deformation
anisocytosis
abnormal variation in size of a cell
macrocytosis and microcytosis are examples of what
anisocytosis
altered cell shape like sickle or crenation is known as
poikilocytosis