Chapter 10 vocab

Question 1

white blood cells whose granules stain deep blue with basic dye; have a relatively pale nucleus and granular-appearing cytoplasm.

Answer 1

Basophils

Question 2

granular white blood cells whose granules readily take up a stain called eosin.

Answer 2

Eosinophils

Question 3

the fibrous insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood.

Answer 3

Fibrin

Question 4

clumping of (foreign) cells, induced by cross-linking of antigen-antibody complexes.

Answer 4

Agglutination

Question 5

the oxygen-transporting pigment of erythrocytes.

Answer 5

Hemoglobin

Question 6

agranular white blood cells formed in the bone marrow that mature in the lymphoid tissue.

Answer 6

Lymphocytes

Question 7

the most abundant of the white blood cells.

Answer 7

Neutrophils

Question 8

one of the irregular cell fragments of blood; involved in clotting.

Answer 8

Platelets

Question 9

A plasma protein present in tissues, platelets, and white blood cells necessary for the coagulation of blood and, in the presence of calcium ions, necessary for the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin

Answer 9

Thromboplastin

Question 10

reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood caused by a decreased number of erythrocytes or decreased percentage of hemoglobin in the blood.

Answer 10

Anemia

Question 11

clotting (of blood).

Answer 11

Coagulation

Question 12

red blood cells.

Answer 12

Erythrocytes

Question 13

cellular portion of blood.

Answer 13

Formed elements

Question 14

white blood cell.

Answer 14

Leukocytes

Question 15

large single-nucleus white blood cell; agranular leukocyte.

Answer 15

Monocytes

Question 16

the fluid portion of the blood.

Answer 16

Plasma

Question 17

A glycoprotein formed by and stored in the liver and present in the blood plasma that is converted to thrombin in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium ion during blood clotting

Answer 17

Prothrombin