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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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List 3 functions of the blood

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Protection, transportation, regulation

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Blood proteins account for what percent of the plasma

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7%

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The most commons blood protein

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Albumin

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Blood is approximately what % plasma?

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55%

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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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An immature red blood cell

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Reticulocyte

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

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Neutrophils

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Which leukocytes are agranulocytes?

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Lymphocytes, monocytes

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Which leukocytes are granular leukocytes?

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Basophils, neutrophils, eosinophils

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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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Fibrinogen, and prothrombin are blood proteins necessary for this purpose

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Blood clotting

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In blood clotting, thrombin converts fibrinogen to this substance

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Fibrin

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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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What is the process of dissolving small inappropriate clots called?

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Fineinolysi

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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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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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The blood type gene that is inherited as recessive
Type O
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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
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
Type B
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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
Type AB
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If your blood does not agglutinate in either of the typing serums, you have this blood type
Type O
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Universal donor gave blood that is this type
Type O
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A universal recepient is this blood type
Type AB
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The antigen protein present on the red blood cell membrane determines this
Blood type
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The test that measures the percentage of red blood cells in a sample of blood
Hemorocrit
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No one with type B blood can also have these antibodies
Anti-B
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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
Antibodies
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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?
Neither
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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?
Hemolytic disease of the newborn
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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 ____.
Positive
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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?
Positive
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Where does the formation of most blood cells occur?
Red bone marrow
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Largest cell
White blood cells
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Smallest formed element
Platelets
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Carry oxygen
Red blood cells
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Have nuclei
White blood cells
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Fight infection
White blood cells
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Contain hemoglobin
Red blood cells
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Live about 10 days
Platelets
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Most live a few days
White blood cells
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Live about 4 months
Red blood cells
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Biconcave disk shaped
Red blood cells
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Make up the greatest blood volume
Red blood cells
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Important in blood clotting
Platelets
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May have independent movement
White blood cells
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White blood cell type that increases in number to combat inflammation during allergic reactions
Eosinophils
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The second most numerous kind of white blood cell; comes and goes from the blood stream
Lymphocytes
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The largest type of white blood cell
Monocyte
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WBC that cleans up debris after infections
Monocytes
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A plasma protein necessary for anti bodies
Globulin
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A plasma protein important in maintaining the blood's viscosity
Albumin
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Pigment of RBC's whodunit carries oxygen
Hemoglobin
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Protein on the surface of a RBC which can stimulate for the formation of antibodies against it
Antigen
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Another name for red blood cell
Erythrocyte
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Another name for a white blood cell
Leukocyte
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The clumping together of red blood cells in an incompatible transfusion
Hemolysis
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Another name for the clotting of the blood
Coagulation
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An increase in the number of leukocytes
Leukocytosis
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A decrease in the number if leukocytes
Leukopenia
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A decrease in the number of erythrocytes
Anemia
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"Blood doping" causing an overproduction of red blood cells
Induced polycythemia
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A pale he'll fluid similar to plasma but lacks clotting ability
Serum
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Movement if a white cell through the capillary wall
Diapedesis
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Clotting inside an unbroken vessel
Thrombosis
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A blood clot inside a vessel
Thrombus
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A moving clot or obstruction in a vessel
Embolus
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Cancer of the red bone marrow causing uncontrolled production of white blood cells
Leukemia
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Typified by abnormal sickle-shaped RBC's
Sickle cell disease
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Nutrients, hormones, and gases are carried by this part of the blood
Plasma
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The liquid part of the blood
Plasma
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Cells in the red bone marrow that have the ability to develop into many different cells
Pluripotent stem cells
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Proteins that are located on the blood cells
Antigens
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These blood cells may be found out of the blood vessels in the spaces between cells
WBC's (lymphocyte)
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Amount of blood in the average healthy male
5-6Liters
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The term for stoppage of bleeding
Hemostasis
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Immature RBC's which contain a nucleus
Reticulocytes

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