Circulatory(blood) Flashcards

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Red blood cells

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Biconcave disks with no nucleus and no major organelles, most abundant cell type in blood, transport oxygen through blood , hemoglobin

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Plasma

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Composed mainly of water and contains many dissolved substances .glucose ,carbon dioxide hormones ,salt, lipid ,nitrogenous wastes and protein that assist clotting and in the immune response

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Hemoglobin

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An iron containing protein that can bind to oxygen molecules

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White blood cells

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Important fighting off infectious disease such as phagocyte and lymphocytes

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Platelets

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Are not really cells at all; they are packets of cytoplasm that relates the enzyme thromboplastin when they come into contact with a foreign substance within the blood or the rough edges of an open wound

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What does thromboplastin do?

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Sets off a chain reaction that converts fibrinogen, a soluble protein found in the blood plasma, into fibrin, a tough, insoluble fibrous protein that traps red blood cells and thereby forms blood clots that stop blood loss from an open wound

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Systole

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When heart contracts(ventricle )

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Diastole

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When heart relax

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What is blood type o?

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Universal donor

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What is blood type ab?

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Universal recipient

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Blood type

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Red blood cells manufacture proteins called antigens that coat the cell surface . These proteins help the immune system to determine if a cell is a foreign . There is a antigen a and b. Blood type is a codominant trait

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