ch 18 pt 10 anatomy

Question 1

What is coagulation?

Answer 1

Network of fibrin - blood clotting

Question 2

What is intrinsic pathway?

Answer 2

Initiated by platelets upon damage to inside of vessel wall

Question 3

What is extrinsic pathway?

Answer 3

Initiated by damage outside of vessel

Question 4

When does clot stop in common pathway?

Answer 4

Fibrin fills mesh and extra is destroyed

Question 5

The sympathetic response to blood loss is?

Answer 5

Maintaining blood pressure

Question 6

Blood is redistributed to where during blood loss?

Answer 6

Heart and brain

Question 7

What is clot retraction?

Answer 7

Squeezes serum out of developing clot

Question 8

What is fibrinolysis?

Answer 8

Breakdown of fibrin strands by plasmin

Question 9

What is hemophilia?

Answer 9

Bleeding disorder, issues clotting

Question 10

Who exhibits hemophilia?

Answer 10

Male exhibit full-blown disease and females are carriers

Question 11

What is thrombocytopenia?

Answer 11

Platelet deficiency

Question 12

What causes thrombocytopenia?

Answer 12

Increased breakdown or decreased production

Question 13

What is hypercoagulation?

Answer 13

Increased tendency to clot blood

Question 14

What is thrombus?

Answer 14

Blood vessel clot

Question 15

What is embolus?

Answer 15

Dislodged within blood

Question 16

What is pulmonary embolism?

Answer 16

Lodges in lungs