Chapter 18 Flashcards
Mention the 3 functions of blood
transportation, regulation, protection
What kind of tissue is blood?
connective tissue
What does blood carry?
hormones, heat, respiratory gases, nutrients, wastes
Which blood vessel take blood away from the heart?
arteries
Which blood vessel take blood into the heart?
veins
What is another name from capillaries?
exchange vessels
What are the 2 components of blood?
formed elements and plasma
Mention the formed elements of blood
erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets
What does erythrocytes transport?
respiratory gases or oxygen and co2
What is the principal function of leukocytes?
defend against pathogens
What is the principal function of platelets?
form clots to prevent blood loss
Which is the fluid portion of blood?
plasma
What are the ways to lose water?
skin, respiration, urine
What does blood regulate?
fluid balance, body temperature and pH
What color is blood when is oxygen-rich?
bright red
What does it mean when blood is dark red?
it’s oxygen-poor blood
What does viscosity mean?
how thick is something
How can blood viscosity be increased?
when there’s more erythrocytes or less fluid
What is the pH of blood?
slightly alkaline
What is whole blood?
formed elements and plasma
What is centrifuged blood?
the separation of whole blood
What’s the lower layer of centrifuged blood?
erythrocytes
What’s the middle layer of centrifuged blood?
buffy coat
What are the components of Buffy coat?
leukocytes and platelets
What’s the top layer of centrifuged blood?
plasma
What is the principal component of plasma?
water. 92%
What’s the definition of hematocrit?
percentage of volume of all formed elements
wha’s the clinical definition of hematocrit?
percentage of erythrocytes
What’s blood smear?
blood placed on microscope slide and stained
How erythrocytes are seen in a blood smear?
they’re more numerous, and pink
How leukocytes are seen in a blood smear?
larger than erythrocytes
How platelets are seen in a blood smear?
smallest ones
Where is plasma?
outside the cell
What is plasma similar to?
interstitial fluid
Why is blood a colloid?
because of plasma proteins
who generates colloid osmotic pressure?
plasma proteins
what does colloid osmotic pressure does?
sucks fluid preventing its lost
what is the main plasma protein?
albumins, 58%
what kind of protein is albumin?
transport protein
what is the second most common plasma protein?
globulin, 37%
mention the three types of globulins
alpha, beta and gamma
what does alpha and beta globulins do?
transport water-insoluble molecules
what does gamma-globulins do?
they’re part of body defense
when is fribinogen needed?
when it’s trauma
what is the function of fibrinogen?
helps with blood clotting
what’s hemopoiesis?
production of formed elements
where does hemopoiesis happen?
red bone marrow
why hemocytoblasts are pluripotent?
they can differentiate in many types of cells
what line forms lymphocytes?
lymphoid line
what lines does hemocytoblats produce?
myeloid and lymphoid line
what does myeloid line form?
erythrocytes, all leukocytes (no lymphocytes), and megakaryocytes
what does megakaryocytes produce?
platelets
what’s the function of colony-stimulating factors?
stimulate hematopoiesis
what’s erythropoiesis?
production of erythrocytes
what’s the sequence of erythropoiesis?
myeloid stem cell, proerythroblast, erythroblast, normoblast, reticulocyte, erythrocyte
in what stage of erythropoiesis the nucleus is gone?
normoblast