Week 4-Chapter 13 Flashcards
Abscess
Pus filled cavity
Albumin
Plasma protein. Maintains osmotic pressure
Anemia
Blood disorder characterized by reduction in red blood cells or hemoglobin
Antibody
Substance produced by the body that inactivates a specific foreign substance that has entered the body, formed as a reaction to an antigen
Agranulocytes
Nongranular white blood cells, known as agranular leukocytes
Anticoagulants
Chemical substance that prevents or slows blood clotting
Antigen
Substance stimulating formation of antibodies against itself
Antithromboplastin
Chemical substance that inhibits the clot-accelerating effect of thromboplastins
Antiprothrombin
Chemical substance, such as heparin, that directly or indirectly reduces or slows the action of prothrombin
B lymphocytes
White blood cells synthesized in the bone marrow, help form antibodies
Basophils
Leukocyte cells that are activated during an allergic reaction or inflammation, produce histamine and heparin
Aplastic anemia
Anemia caused by a suppression of the bone marrow
Carbon monoxide poisoning (CO)
A condition in which an odorless gas combines rapidly with hemoglobin and crowds out oxygen
Clotting time
The time it takes for blood to clot
Cooleys anemia
Anemia caused by defect in hemoglobin formation, also known as thalassemia major
Coagulation
Process of blood clotting
Diapedesis
Passage of blood cells through uncultured vessel wall into tissues
Eosinophils
White blood cells that increase in great numbers in allergic conditions, phagocytize the remains of the antibody-antigen reaction
Embolism
Obstruction of a blood vessel by a circulating blood clot, fat globule, air bubble, or piece of tissue
Erythropoiesis
Formation or development of red blood cells
Erythrocytes
Red blood cells
Erythroblastosis fetalis
Hemolytic disease of the newborn
Erythropoietin
Hormone produced by the kidney to accelerate the production of red blood cells
Fibrin
An insoluble protein necessary for the clotting of blood
Granulocytes
Granular white blood cells synthesized
Fibrinogen
A protein that is converted into fibrin by the action of thrombin
Gamma globulin
Fractionated part of globulin to treat infectious diseases
Globulin
Plasma protein made in liver, helps in synthesis of antibodies
Hematocrit
Blood test that measures the percentage of the volume of whole blood that is made up of red blood cells, which depend on the number and size of the red blood cells
Hematopoisis
Formation of blood cells through uncultured
Hemostasis
Process of controlling or stopping bleeding
Hemophilia
Sex linked, hereditary bleeding disorder occurring mostly in males but transmitted by females,
Hemoglobin
Oxygen carrying pigment of the blood
Hemolysis
The bursting of red blood cells synthesized
Heparin
Substance obtained from the liver that slows blood clotting
Hereditary hemochromatosis
A genetic disorder that causes the body to absorb too much iron from food
International normalized ratio
Inflammation
Occurs when tissue reacts to chemical or physical trauma or invasion of pathogenic microorganisms
Hereditary spherocytosis
An inherited blood disorder characterized by a mutation that causes red blood cells to take on a spherical shape
Iron deficiency anemia
Condition that results from lack of adequate amounts of iron in the diet
Leukemia
A cancerous condition in which there is a great increase in the number of white blood cells
Leukocytes
White blood cells
Leukopenia
A decrease in the normal number of white blood cells synthesized
Monocytes
Leukocytes manufactured in bone marrow and the spleen, wall off infected areas
Lymphocytes
Type of white blood cells synthesized
Leukocytosis
An increase in the white blood cells synthesized count above 10,000 cells per cubic millimeter
Multiple myeloma
Malignant neoplasm of plasma cells or B lymphocytes
Pathogenic
Disease causing
Myeloblasts
Cells that synthesize granulocytes in bone marrow
Neutrophils
Many lobed white blood cells that phagocytize bacteria,
Oxyhemoglobin
Hemoglobin combined with oxygen
Pernicious anemia
Caused by decrease of vitamin B12 or lack or intrinsic factor in the stomach
Pus
Product of inflammation,
Prothrombin time
Blood test done to determine clotting time of blood
Plasma
Liquid part of blood without its cellular elements
Polycythemia
Too many red blood cells
Prothrombin
A globulin that helps blood coagulate
Pyrexia
Fever
Rh factor
Antigen found in red blood cells
Septicemia
Presence of pathogenic organisms in the blood
Sedimentation rate
A blood test that measures the time it takes red blood cells to settle to the bottom in an upright tube.
Pyrogens
Chemical release when there is inflammation.
Thalassemia
Cooleys anemia
Thrombin
Enzyme found in blood