Disorders of blood

Question 1

Abnormal excess of erythrocytes in the blood

Answer 1

Polycythemia

Question 2

results from a cancer of bone marrow that generates too many erythrocytes

Answer 2

Polycythemia vera

Question 3

increased of the viscosity of the blood, which slows or blocks the flow of blood through the smallest vessels.

Answer 3

Severe Polycythemia

Question 4

Erythrocyte levels or hemoglobin concentrations are low. Blood’s capacity for carrying oxygen is diminished

Answer 4

Anemia

Question 5

Results from a defective hemoglobin molecule, Erythrocytes distort into a sickle shape, A slight change in the primary structure of a protein affects its ability to function, The substitution of one amino acid for another in hemoglobin causes sickle-cell disease

Answer 5

Sickle cell

Question 6

a defect in the hemoglobin molecule that causes the abnormal hemoglobin to crystallize when the concentration of oxygen in the blood is low or the erythrocyte become
dehydrated, as during exercise or anxiety.

Answer 6

Sickle cell

Question 7

A state in which the current oxygen supply is inadequate for the current physiological needs of tissue.

Answer 7

Ischemia

Question 8

Abnormal excess of iron

Answer 8

Hemochromatosis

Question 9

causes the body to absorb and store too much iron. The extra iron builds up in the body’s organs and damages them. Without treatment, the disease can cause the liver, heart, and
pancreas to fail.

Answer 9

Hemochromatosis

Question 10

A large number of immature leukocytes

Answer 10

Leukemia

Question 11

a form of cancer resulting from the uncontrolled proliferation of leukocyte-forming cell lines in the bone marrow.

Answer 11

Leukemia