Week 8 - Review Flashcards
The white blood cells that make heparin and histamine.
Basophils
The large non-specialized cell in the bone marrow that breaks apart to form platelets, also called thrombocytes.
Megakarocycte
The type of white blood cells that can make antibodies.
Lymphocytes
The sum of erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets in the blood volume is known as.
Formed elements
The percent of blood volume that is red blood cells.
Hematocrit
The white blood cells that make antihistamines.
Eosinophils
What term denotes a form of cancer associated with numerous immature (and ineffective) WBCs, leading to fatality typically due to infection or internal bleeding associated with insufficient platelets.
Leukemia
The plasma protein that is present in largest abundance and that is created by the liver.
Albumin
The first stage of hemostasis is known as _________ and refers to vasoconstriction initiated by platelets releasing prostaglandins.
Vascular spasm
The name for the condition where a pregnant mothers immune system attacks the blood type of the developing fetus due to the Rh factor present on the fetal blood cells that is absent on the mothers blood cells.
Erythroblastosis fetalis
The form of protein that our bodies can synthesize in response to foreign antigens after first exposure, or foreign blood types with opposing antigens (from birth).
Antibodies
The proteins associated with biological structures or cells, including foreign cells and even our own blood cells.
Antigens
The form of anemia that is caused by B12 deficiency is referred to as this.
Pernicious
The specific condition that the kidney senses that causes the kidney to release renal erythropoietic factor, which in turn eventually causes production of the erythropoetin hormone for RBC production.
Low oxygen, also known as hypoxia
A form of polycythemia created when an elite athlete adds preserved samples of their own blood back to their body to enhance oxygen carrying capacity.
Blood doping
