HM Manual Chapter 19 Clinical Laboratory

Question 1

What lab is a measurement of the concentration of hemoglobin within the patient’s blood?

Answer 1

Hemoglobin

Question 2

What happens to RBC and hemoglobin counts as you increase in elevation?

Answer 2

numbers increase

Question 3

What is the normal hemoglobin levels in women?

Answer 3

12-16 g/100ml

Question 4

What is the normal hemoglobin levels in men?

Answer 4

14-18 g/100ml

Question 5

What is blood mixed with when determining blood hemoglobin via the manual method?

Answer 5

cyanomethoglobin

Question 6

What lab study is ration of volume of RBCs to the volume of whole blood?

Answer 6

Hematocrit

Question 7

What is the normal hematocrit in a woman?

Answer 7

37-47%

Question 8

What is the normal hematocrit in Men?

Answer 8

42-52%

Question 9

What term describes the manual method of determining hematocrit?

Answer 9

microhematocrit

Question 10

What is the normal WBC ranges in adults?

Answer 10

4.8 - 10.8 x 10^6/ml (4,800 - 10,800)

Question 11

What term describes WBC values above normal?

Answer 11

Leukocytosis

Question 12

What are some conditions that can cause leukocytosis?

Answer 12

Delivery, Pregnancy, Appendicitis, Ulcers, Emotional distress, Anxiety, Strenuous exercise

Question 13

What term describes abnormally low WBC counts?

Answer 13

Leukopenia

Question 14

What are the five types of WBCs?

Answer 14

Neutorphils
Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Eosinophils
Basophils

Question 15

What type of WBC accounts for the largest percentage of leukocytes?

Answer 15

Neutrophils

Question 16

What WBC, when stained, has numerous fine barely visible lilac-colored granules and a dark purple or reddish purple nucleus?

Answer 16

Neutrophils

Question 17

What type of neutorphil is sometimes called a “stab” cell?

Answer 17

Neutrophilic Band

Question 18

What type of neutorphil has the nucleus started to elongate and curve into a horseshoe?

Answer 18

Neutrophilic band

Question 19

What type of neutorphil is considered mature?

Answer 19

Segmented Neutorphil

Question 20

What type of WBC functions to destroy parasites and respond in immediate allergic reactions?

Answer 20

Eosinophil

Question 21

What type of WBC will the cytoplasm contain numerous large, reddish-orange granules?

Answer 21

Eosinophil

Question 22

What is the most common cause of increased eosinophils?

Answer 22

parasitic, in particular helminthic infections

Question 23

What WBC is associated with inflammatory disorders and certain leukemias?

Answer 23

Basophils

Question 24

What WBC will have a scattered deep bluish-purple granules that are darker than the nucleus?

Answer 24

Basophils

Question 25

What WBC functions are associated with the immune response and the body's defense against viral infection?

Answer 25

Lymphocytes

Question 26

What WBC has cytoplasm that is clear sky blue, scanty with few unevenly distributed blue granules with a halo around them?

Answer 26

Lymphocytes

Question 27

What WBC is the larges of the normal WBCs and control microbial and fungal infections and removes damaged cells form the body?

Answer 27

Monocyte

Question 28

What are the four growth requirements for bacteria?

Answer 28

Temperature Oxygen Nutrition Moisture

Question 29

What term describes cold loving bacteria?

Answer 29

Psychrophilic

Question 30

What term describes bacteria that reproduces best at body temperature?

Answer 30

Mesophilic

Question 31

What term describes bacteria that reproduces best at higher temperatures?

Answer 31

Thermophlic

Question 32

What term describes organisms that reproduce in the presence of oxygen?

Answer 32

Aerobes

Question 33

What term describes organisms that do not reproduce in the presence of oxygen?

Answer 33

Anaerobes

Question 34

What are the two toxins produced by bacteria?

Answer 34

Endotoxin | Exotoxin

Question 35

What type of toxin comprises part of the cell wall and is released when the cell is destroyed?

Answer 35

Endotoxin

Question 36

What type of toxin is produced by bacteria and found outside the bacterial cell in the surrounding medium?

Answer 36

Exotoxin

Question 37

Of the two toxins produced by bacteria, which is highly poisonous and associated with septic shock?

Answer 37

Exotoxin

Question 38

What color do gram positive bacteria stain?

Answer 38

violet

Question 39

What color do gram negative bacteria stain?

Answer 39

Pink