Blood plasma correct answers Blood minus its cells
What is blood made of correct answers Fluid tissue with many chemicals dissolved in it
What does
... [Show More] blood do? correct answers Transportation and protection against foreign invaders
What is the difference between plasma and serum correct answers Similar but serum excludes clotting factors
What are the granular white blood cells correct answers Neuroptophils, eosinophils, basophils
What are the agranular white blood cells correct answers B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes, Mohocytes
What are the 3 main types of formed elements of the blood? correct answers Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets
What do neurotrophils do correct answers Phagocytosis
What do eosinophils do? correct answers Defense parasites
What do basophils do? correct answers Inflammatory response, secrete heparin and histamine
Fat-soluble vitamin for blood clotting and what does it do? correct answers Vitamin K, acts as catalyst that transforms some anticlotting proteins into clotting proteins
What do B lymphocytes do? correct answers Antibody production
What do T lymphocytes do? correct answers Cellular immune response, destroy cancer cells
What do monocytes do? correct answers Phagocytosis
What do platelets (thrombocytes) do? correct answers Blood clothing
Normal range of red blood cell count? correct answers 4.2 to 6.2 million
normal range of WBC correct answers 5000 to 10,000 per mm3 of blood
Normal range of platelets correct answers 300,000 per mm3 of blood
What are the most numerous white blood cells? correct answers Neutrophils
What is hematopoiesis? correct answers Formation of new blood cells
What 2 kinds of connective tissue make blood cells for the body correct answers Myeloid tissue and lymphoid tissue
Myeloid tissue correct answers Red bone marrow
Lymphoid tissue correct answers Lymphatic tissue (nodes, thymus, spleen)
Red blood cell structure and function correct answers Disk shaped, my nuclei, transports oxygen and carbon dioxide
Can red blood cells reproduce? correct answers No, can't reproduce or replace lost or damaged cellular components
Hematocrit (Hct) test correct answers Centrifuge separates into blood elements and liquid fraction. Buffy coat is WBC and platelet fraction. Normal RBC level is 45%
Dehydration effect on RBCS correct answers Decreased plasma (water in plasma) and RBCs elevated
What is anemia correct answers Inability of blood to carry adequate oxygen to brain
Causes of anemia correct answers Low RBCS, hemoglobin deficiency, pernicious anemia (vitamin B12 deficiency)
What is polycythemia? correct answers Bone marrow produces too many RBCs, blood may not flow properly, can cause stroke or heart attack
What is critical in transport and exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and body's cells correct answers Hemoglobin molecules that fill RBCs
What is an antigen? correct answers Substance that can activate immune system,like a flag or marker against foreign invaders
What is an antibody? correct answers Substance made by body in response to simulation by an antigen. Fights invaders
What happens when you mix blood types? correct answers Antibodies react with their antigens to cause clumping (agglutinate the antigens)
Universal recipient blood type correct answers Type AB
Universal donor blood type correct answers Type O
What happens with RH negative pregnant women and RH positive baby (erythroblastosis fetalis)? correct answers Mom should be treated with rhogam at 28 weeks and 72 hours after delivery to avoid risk with 2nd baby for RH antigen [Show Less]