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SC2110-Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology > Week 4-Chapter 13 > Flashcards

Week 4-Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Abscess

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Pus filled cavity

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Albumin

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Plasma protein. Maintains osmotic pressure

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Anemia

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Blood disorder characterized by reduction in red blood cells or hemoglobin

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Antibody

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Substance produced by the body that inactivates a specific foreign substance that has entered the body, formed as a reaction to an antigen

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Agranulocytes

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Nongranular white blood cells, known as agranular leukocytes

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Anticoagulants

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Chemical substance that prevents or slows blood clotting

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Antigen

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Substance stimulating formation of antibodies against itself

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Antithromboplastin

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Chemical substance that inhibits the clot-accelerating effect of thromboplastins

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Antiprothrombin

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Chemical substance, such as heparin, that directly or indirectly reduces or slows the action of prothrombin

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B lymphocytes

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White blood cells synthesized in the bone marrow, help form antibodies

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Basophils

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Leukocyte cells that are activated during an allergic reaction or inflammation, produce histamine and heparin

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Aplastic anemia

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Anemia caused by a suppression of the bone marrow

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Carbon monoxide poisoning (CO)

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A condition in which an odorless gas combines rapidly with hemoglobin and crowds out oxygen

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Clotting time

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The time it takes for blood to clot

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Cooleys anemia

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Anemia caused by defect in hemoglobin formation, also known as thalassemia major

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Coagulation

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Process of blood clotting

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Diapedesis

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Passage of blood cells through uncultured vessel wall into tissues

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Eosinophils

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White blood cells that increase in great numbers in allergic conditions, phagocytize the remains of the antibody-antigen reaction

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Embolism

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Obstruction of a blood vessel by a circulating blood clot, fat globule, air bubble, or piece of tissue

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Erythropoiesis

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Formation or development of red blood cells

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Erythrocytes

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Red blood cells

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Erythroblastosis fetalis

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Hemolytic disease of the newborn

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Erythropoietin

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Hormone produced by the kidney to accelerate the production of red blood cells

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Fibrin

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An insoluble protein necessary for the clotting of blood

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Granulocytes

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Granular white blood cells synthesized

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Fibrinogen

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A protein that is converted into fibrin by the action of thrombin

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Gamma globulin

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Fractionated part of globulin to treat infectious diseases

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Globulin

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Plasma protein made in liver, helps in synthesis of antibodies

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Hematocrit

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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

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Hematopoisis

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Formation of blood cells through uncultured

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Hemostasis

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Process of controlling or stopping bleeding

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Hemophilia

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Sex linked, hereditary bleeding disorder occurring mostly in males but transmitted by females,

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Hemoglobin

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Oxygen carrying pigment of the blood

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Hemolysis

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The bursting of red blood cells synthesized

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Heparin

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Substance obtained from the liver that slows blood clotting

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Hereditary hemochromatosis

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A genetic disorder that causes the body to absorb too much iron from food

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International normalized ratio

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38
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Inflammation

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Occurs when tissue reacts to chemical or physical trauma or invasion of pathogenic microorganisms

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Hereditary spherocytosis

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An inherited blood disorder characterized by a mutation that causes red blood cells to take on a spherical shape

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Iron deficiency anemia

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Condition that results from lack of adequate amounts of iron in the diet

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Leukemia

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A cancerous condition in which there is a great increase in the number of white blood cells

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Leukocytes

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White blood cells

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Leukopenia

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A decrease in the normal number of white blood cells synthesized

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Monocytes

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Leukocytes manufactured in bone marrow and the spleen, wall off infected areas

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Lymphocytes

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Type of white blood cells synthesized

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Leukocytosis

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An increase in the white blood cells synthesized count above 10,000 cells per cubic millimeter

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Multiple myeloma

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Malignant neoplasm of plasma cells or B lymphocytes

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Pathogenic

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Disease causing

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Myeloblasts

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Cells that synthesize granulocytes in bone marrow

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Neutrophils

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Many lobed white blood cells that phagocytize bacteria,

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Oxyhemoglobin

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Hemoglobin combined with oxygen

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Pernicious anemia

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Caused by decrease of vitamin B12 or lack or intrinsic factor in the stomach

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Pus

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Product of inflammation,

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Prothrombin time

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Blood test done to determine clotting time of blood

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Plasma

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Liquid part of blood without its cellular elements

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Polycythemia

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Too many red blood cells

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Prothrombin

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A globulin that helps blood coagulate

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Pyrexia

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Fever

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Rh factor

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Antigen found in red blood cells

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Septicemia

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Presence of pathogenic organisms in the blood

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Sedimentation rate

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A blood test that measures the time it takes red blood cells to settle to the bottom in an upright tube.

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Pyrogens

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Chemical release when there is inflammation.

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Thalassemia

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Cooleys anemia

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Thrombin

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Enzyme found in blood

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