midsemester_demo Flashcards
Clotting
or coagulation, is an important process that prevents excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured. Platelets (a type of blood cell) and proteins in your plasma (the liquid part of blood) work together to stop the bleeding by forming a clot over the injury.
Agglutination
Agglutination, which refers to the clumping of particles together, is an antigen-antibody reaction that occurs when an antigen (i.e., a molecule capable of triggering the adaptive immune response) is mixed with its corresponding antibody at a suitable pH and temperature.
Leukocytes
White blood cells, also known as leukocytes, are responsible for protecting your body from infection
Erythrocytes
A type of blood cell that is made in the bone marrow and found in the blood. Erythrocytes contain a protein called hemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body.
Antigen-antibody interactions:
They are used to identify and reject microorganisms, such as viruses and bacteria, that invade our bodies.
Monocyte
agranular leukocyte
A type of immune cell that is made in the bone marrow and travels through the blood to tissues in the body where it becomes a macrophage or a dendritic cell.
Leukocytosis
an increase in the number of white blood cells that carries oxygen
hemostasis
stoppage of bleeding
Hemophilia
heredity deficiencies of coagulation is referred to
embolus
a blood clot transported by the blood stream
Person with A blood type has which antibodies and antigens?
Antigens- A
antibodies- B
Person with B blood type has which antibodies and antigens?
Antigens- B
antibodies- A
Person with AB blood type has which antibodies and antigens?
antigens- AB
antibodies- none
Person with 0 blood type has which antibodies and antigens?
antigens- 0
antibodies -AB
smallest component of human blood?
WBC
