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Chapter 14 Flashcards

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Name two types of cells whose main function is phagocytosis activity

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Neutrophils, monocytes

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What is the straw-colored liquid that remains when formed elements are removed from blood?

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Plasma

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Name some materials that blood carries

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CO2,O2, waste, hormones, nutrients.

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3
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List 3 functions of the blood

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Protection, transportation, regulation

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4
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Blood proteins account for what percent of the plasma

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7%

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5
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The most commons blood protein

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Albumin

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6
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Blood is approximately what % plasma?

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55%

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7
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Plasma is composed of about what % water

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90% (91.5%)

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The process of ingesting and destroying bacterial cells.

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Phagocytis

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9
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An immature red blood cell

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Reticulocyte

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10
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About how many RBC’s does the average person have per ùL of blood

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5 million

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An inherited defect most common in African Americans that results in red blood cells that are distorted

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Sickle cell disease

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12
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Appendicitis or an acute infection will cause a rapid increase in which type of WBC?

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Neutrophils

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13
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Which leukocytes are agranulocytes?

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Lymphocytes, monocytes

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14
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Which leukocytes are granular leukocytes?

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Basophils, neutrophils, eosinophils

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15
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Which leukocytes develop into cells which produce antibodies?

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Lymphocytes

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What is the average leukocyte count per ùL of blood?

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7,500 (5,000-10,000)

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What is the average number of platelets circulating per ùL of blood?

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250,000-400,000

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18
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Fibrinogen, and prothrombin are blood proteins necessary for this purpose

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Blood clotting

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19
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In blood clotting, thrombin converts fibrinogen to this substance

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Fibrin

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20
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If blood vessel cells are damaged they trigger formation of this enzyme in clotting’s 1st stage

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Prothrombinase

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21
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What is the process of dissolving small inappropriate clots called?

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Fineinolysi

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22
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What is the effect of herapin and coudamin on blood clotting?

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Inhibit (slow)

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23
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What is the condition that causes the accumulation of fatty substances which cause rough spots on vessel walls?

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Athresclerosis

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24
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The blood type gene that is inherited as recessive

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Type O

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25
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If your blood agglutinates in the anti-A typing serum but not in the anti-B serum, them you have this blood type

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Type A

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If your blood agglutinates in the anti-B typing serum but not in the anti-A typing serum, them you have this blood type

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Type B

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27
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If your blood agglutinates in both the anti-A typing serum and the anti-B typing serum, then you have this blood type

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Type AB

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28
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If your blood does not agglutinate in either of the typing serums, you have this blood type

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Type O

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29
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Universal donor gave blood that is this type

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Type O

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30
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A universal recepient is this blood type

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Type AB

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31
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The antigen protein present on the red blood cell membrane determines this

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Blood type

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32
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The test that measures the percentage of red blood cells in a sample of blood

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Hemorocrit

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33
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No one with type B blood can also have these antibodies

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Anti-B

34
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In emergency transfusions one must always consider how the recipient’s _____ react with the antigens of the donor’s red blood cells

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Antibodies

35
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Mr. A and Mr. AB have volunteered to give blood to Mr. B, who has type B blood. Mr. A has type A blood and Mr. AB has type AB blood. Which blood could be transfused safely into Mr. B’s bloodstream?

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Neither

36
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If the mother is Rh negative and the father is Rh positive, ( or the mother is Rh negative and the fetus is Rh positive) what condition may occur?

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Hemolytic disease of the newborn

37
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Complications in the birth of a third child to an Rh negative mother are most likely to occur when the child is Rh positive and the two previous children were Rh ____.

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Positive

38
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If a father donates the Rh+ gene and a mother donates the Rh- gene, what will be the Rh of the children?

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Positive

39
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Where does the formation of most blood cells occur?

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Red bone marrow

40
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Largest cell

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White blood cells

41
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Smallest formed element

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Platelets

42
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Carry oxygen

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Red blood cells

43
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Have nuclei

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White blood cells

44
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Fight infection

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White blood cells

45
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Contain hemoglobin

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Red blood cells

46
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Live about 10 days

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Platelets

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Most live a few days

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White blood cells

48
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Live about 4 months

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Red blood cells

49
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Biconcave disk shaped

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Red blood cells

50
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Make up the greatest blood volume

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Red blood cells

51
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Important in blood clotting

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Platelets

52
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May have independent movement

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White blood cells

53
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White blood cell type that increases in number to combat inflammation during allergic reactions

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Eosinophils

54
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The second most numerous kind of white blood cell; comes and goes from the blood stream

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Lymphocytes

55
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The largest type of white blood cell

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Monocyte

56
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WBC that cleans up debris after infections

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Monocytes

57
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A plasma protein necessary for anti bodies

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Globulin

58
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A plasma protein important in maintaining the blood’s viscosity

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Albumin

59
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Pigment of RBC’s whodunit carries oxygen

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Hemoglobin

60
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Protein on the surface of a RBC which can stimulate for the formation of antibodies against it

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Antigen

61
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Another name for red blood cell

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Erythrocyte

62
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Another name for a white blood cell

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Leukocyte

63
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The clumping together of red blood cells in an incompatible transfusion

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Hemolysis

64
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Another name for the clotting of the blood

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Coagulation

65
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An increase in the number of leukocytes

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Leukocytosis

66
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A decrease in the number if leukocytes

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Leukopenia

67
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A decrease in the number of erythrocytes

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Anemia

68
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“Blood doping” causing an overproduction of red blood cells

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Induced polycythemia

69
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A pale he’ll fluid similar to plasma but lacks clotting ability

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Serum

70
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Movement if a white cell through the capillary wall

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Diapedesis

71
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Clotting inside an unbroken vessel

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Thrombosis

72
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A blood clot inside a vessel

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Thrombus

73
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A moving clot or obstruction in a vessel

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Embolus

74
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Cancer of the red bone marrow causing uncontrolled production of white blood cells

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Leukemia

75
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Typified by abnormal sickle-shaped RBC’s

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Sickle cell disease

76
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Nutrients, hormones, and gases are carried by this part of the blood

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Plasma

77
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The liquid part of the blood

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Plasma

78
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Cells in the red bone marrow that have the ability to develop into many different cells

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Pluripotent stem cells

79
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Proteins that are located on the blood cells

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Antigens

80
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These blood cells may be found out of the blood vessels in the spaces between cells

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WBC’s (lymphocyte)

81
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Amount of blood in the average healthy male

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5-6Liters

82
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The term for stoppage of bleeding

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Hemostasis

83
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Immature RBC’s which contain a nucleus

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Reticulocytes

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