The Blood

Question 1

A quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin.

Answer 1

Anemia

Question 2

A yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.

Answer 2

Buffy coat

Question 3

The obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus.

Answer 3

Embolism

Question 4

A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels in the bloodstream and lodges in a blood vessel.

Answer 4

Embolus

Question 5

A severe hemolytic disease of a fetus or newborn caused by production of maternal antibodies for fetal red blood cells, usually involving Rh incompatibility between the mother and fetus. Also called ABO hemolytic disease of newborn , congenital anemia , hemolytic disease of newborn , neonatal anemia .

Answer 5

Erythroblastosis fetalis

Question 6

Also called: red blood cell.

Answer 6

Erythrocyte

Question 7

An elastic, insoluble, whitish protein derived from fibrinogen.

Answer 7

Fibrin

Question 8

A protein in the blood plasma that is essential for the coagulation of blood and is converted to fibrin by thrombin and ionized calcium. Also called factor I .

Answer 8

Fibrinogen

Question 9

A centrifuge for separating the cells of the blood from the plasma.

Answer 9

Hematocrit

Question 10

The red respiratory protein of red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues.

Answer 10

Hemoglobin

Question 11

A complex organic acid that is found especially in lung and liver tissue, has a mucopolysaccharide as its active constituent, prevents platelet agglutination and blood clotting.

Answer 11

Heparin

Question 12

Any of various acute or chronic neoplastic diseases of the bone marrow in which unrestrained proliferation of white blood cells occurs.

Answer 12

Leukemia

Question 13

Any of the colorless or white cells in the blood . Also called white corpuscle .

Answer 13

Leukocyte

Question 14

A severe form of anemia most often affecting older adults, caused by failure of the stomach to absorb vitamin B 12. Also called Addison’s anemia , malignant anemia .

Answer 14

Pernicious anemia

Question 15

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended.

Answer 15

Plasma

Question 16

Any of the various dissolved proteins of blood plasma, including antibodies and blood-clotting proteins.

Answer 16

Plasma protein

Question 17

A condition characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood. Also called erythrocythemia , hypercythemia , hypererythrocythemia , hyperglobulia .

Answer 17

Polycythemia

Question 18

A glycoprotein formed by and stored in the liver and present in the blood plasma that is converted to thrombin . Also called factor II .

Answer 18

Prothrombin

Question 19

Any one of the substances in the extrinsic or intrinsic pathways of coagulation.

Answer 19

Prothrombin activator

Question 20

The clear yellowish fluid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components.

Answer 20

Serum

Question 21

A minute, irregularly shaped, disklike cytoplasmic body found in blood plasma that promotes blood clotting . Also called blood platelet .

Answer 21

Thrombocyte

Question 22

An enzyme in blood formed from prothrombin that facilitates blood clotting. Also called thrombase .

Answer 22

Thrombin

Question 23

Formation or presence of a thrombus.

Answer 23

Thrombosis

Question 24

A fibrinous clot formed in a blood vessel or in a chamber of the heart.

Answer 24

Thrombus

Question 25

A combining form meaning “red ”.

Answer 25

erythr/o

Question 26

A combining form meaning “blood ” .

Answer 26

hem/o

Question 27

A combining form with the meanings “white,” “white blood cell ”.

Answer 27

leuk/o

Question 28

A combining form with the meanings “blood clot,” “coagulation,” “thrombin” .

Answer 28

thromb/o