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Plasma is the ______ part of blood

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Liquid

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What is blood composed of?

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Plasma and formed elements

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What is the primary component of blood

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Water

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What are some of the substances that the plasma contains or dissolves ?

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Albumins, globulins, and fibrinogen

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Where does the waste that plasma dissolves get sent ?

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Excretory organs

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Plasma is made up of
7% ______
91%______
2%________

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Proteins water and other Solutes

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What are three things the plasma protein contains ?

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Albumins
Globulins
Fibrinogen

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What is the function of albumin

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Thicken blood

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What is the function of globulins ?

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Protects from infection.; contains antitoxin

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What is the functions of fibrinogen ?

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Help with blood clotting

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What is blood serum

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Plasma minus it’s clotting factors such as fibrinogen

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On average what percent of our body weight is blood ?

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7 to 9%

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What factors influence the amount of blood in our body

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Size and f

Gender

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What are the three main types of Formed elements found in blood?

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Erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets and thrombocytes

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What two types of connective tissue make blood cells for the body ?

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Myeloid and lymphatic tissue

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What is myeloid tissue known as?

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Red bone marrow

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Red bone marrow forms all types of blood cells except ….?

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Lymphocytes and monocytes

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What allows transport for two types of substances

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Carbon dioxide and oxygen

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What is the red blood pigment in blood ?

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Hemoglobin

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What is oxyhemoglobin and what does it do ?

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Makes it possible the efficient transport of large quantities of oxygen to body cells

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What is anemia

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A number of different diseases conditions caused by an inability of blood to carry sufficient oxygen to body cells

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What is pernicious anemia

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Lack of vitamin b12

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What is polycythemia

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Excess of RBC

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Iron deficiency anemia causes a shortage of

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Iron

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What is hematocrit
It tells physicians the volume of RBC in blood sample
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What do WBC do in general
Defend the body from microorganisms
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What two wbcs are also called phagocytes
Neutrophils and monocytes
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What is phagocytosis
Cells ingest microbes take them into their own cell bodies and digest them in the process
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How do lymphocytes act differently than phagocytes
They make you immune to infectious diseases
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What do b lymphocytes do?
Produce specific antibodies to fight off microbes
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What do T lymphocytes do?
Directly attack the microbes
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What do eosinophils do?
Protect from parasites and irritants that cause allergies
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What do basophils do?
Also protects against allergy irritants
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Eosinophils and basophils produce Herapin. What is Herapin
It helps prevent clotting of blood while flowing through the blood vessels
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What is low WBC count
Leukopenia
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What is high WBC count
Leukopenia
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Platelets play an important role in ....
Blood clotting
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When an injury happens and blood vessel turns from smooth to ...
Rough
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Where do injured tissue cells release clotting factors?
the plasma
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What does the thrombin react with to form fibrin?
fibrogen
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How can gauze help the process of clotting?
the slight roughness causes more platelets to stick togethe
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Why do physicians prescribe vitamin K prior to surgery?
make sure the patients blood woll clot fast enough to prevent hemorrhage
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What is it called when a clot occurs in an unbroken blood vessel and stays in that location?
thrombus
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When a clot occurs in an unbroken blood vessel and circulates the blood stream what is it called ?
an embolus
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What is an antigen?
a substance that can activate the immune system to make certain responses including making antibodies
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Self antigens-
located in plasma membrane of the blood stream
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what are non self antigens
All substances that act as antigens stimulate immune systems
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what are formation antibodies?
a substance made by the body in response to stimulation by an antigen
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What are function antigens?
a substance that reacts with the antigen that stimulated its formation
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what is it called when antibodies clump together
agglutinate
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What does the letter of your blood stand for ?
your self antigen
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what is another name for a platelet ?
thrombocyte
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what is a lack of vitamin b12 called?
pernicious anemia
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the laboratory test called hematocrit tells the physician
the volume of red cells in a blood sample
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An example of a nongranular leukocyte is a
eosinophil
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an abnormally high white blood cell count is known as
leukocytosis
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a critical component in hemoglobin is
calcium
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Sickle cell anemia is caused by
the production of an abnormal type of hemoglobin
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the practice of using blood transfusions increase oxygen delivery to muscles during athletic events is called
blood doping
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The term used to describe the condition of a circulating blood clot is
embolism
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which one of the following types of cells isnot a granular leukocyte
basophil
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if a blood cell has no nucleus and is shaped like a biconcave disc, then the cell most likely is a
red blood cell
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red bone marrow forms all kinds of blood cells except
lymphocytes
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myeloid tissueis found in all but which one of the following locations
Lymph nodes thymus spleen
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the hematocrit value for red blood cells is
75%
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AN unusually low white blood cell count would be termed
leukpenia
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most of the oxygentransported in the blood is carried by
red blood cells
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the most numerous of thephagocytes are the
neutrophils
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Which one of the following types of cells is not phagocyte
monocytes
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wich of the following cell types functions intheimmune process
lymphocytes
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which of the foloowing vitamins acts to accelerate blood clotting
K
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WHich one of the following substances is not a part of the plasma
Hormones slats nutrients wastes
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The normal volume of blood in an adult is aobut
4-6 liters
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blood is normally
neutral

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