Week Two: Hematologic, Lymphatic, And Immune System Flashcards
What does blood consist of?
Formed elements (cells) and liquid (plasma)
What is the purpose of blood?
Supplies body tissues with oxygen, nutrients, and various chemicals
Transports waste products to the appropriate waste system
What are the combining forms for blood?
Hem/I and hemat/o
What is the liquid portion or blood?
Plasma and serum
What is plasma?
When all clotting factors are present
What is serum?
When clotting factors are used up or removed
What are the clotting proteins?
Fibrinogen and prothrombin
What is erythro/o
Red
What are erythrocytes?
What do they do?
Red blood cells (RBC)
Carry oxygen to tissues on hemoglobin
What are leukocytes?
What do they do?
White blood cells (WBC)
Fight disease
Divided into granulocytes and agranulocytes
What are platelets?
Clotting cells
Thrombocytes
Forms mechanical part of clot, pieces of cytoplasm
Granulocytes contain________.
These are examples of granulocytes
Grains
Neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils
Agranulocytes do not contain ________
These are examples
Grains
Monocytes, lymphocytes
What do eosinophils do? What do they look like
Prevents inflammation
Barebell shaped, stain red
What do basophils do? What do they look like?
Blue/purple stain
Increases blood flow, contains histamine and heparin
What are monocytes?
Eat big things, have a chunky nucleus and lots of cytoplasm (fried eggy)
What are lymphocytes
Can’t eat things, too small, have a round nucleus, produces antibodies
Exotics don’t have _______ but instead have ________.
Neutrophils, heterophils
What is the combining form for formation?
-poiesis
Blood is formed in what?
Bone marrow
What is the comvining form for bone marrow?
Myel/o
Where does red bone marrow live?
In cancellous bone
What is coagulation?
The process of clotting
Blood can be mixed with what to prevent clotting?
Anticoagulant
What is EDTA?
Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid
What are the most common anticoagulants?
EDTA and heparin
What is hematology?
Study of blood (what’s in it, how much water, cells, ect.)
What is morphology?
Study of shape and size of cell (does it look normal)
What is anemia?
Deficiency of RBC