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Ch. 10 Review
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Anatomy
10th Grade
02/15/2007

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ability of White Blood Cell's to locate areas of tissue damage and infection in the body by responding to certain chmeicals that diffuse from the damaged cells
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Chemotaxis
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testing for agglutination of donor's RBCs
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cross matching
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most abundant plasma protein; found in all animal tissue; contributes to osmotic pressure of blood to keep water in the blood
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albumin
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decreased number of platelets
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thrombocytopenia
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% of RBCs to total blood volume
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hematocrit
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a fixed or attached clot that develops and persists in an unbroken blood vessel
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thrombus
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the oxygen-transporting pigment of erythrocytes
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hemoglobin
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oxygen carrying red blood cells
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erythrocytes
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infection and allergy fighting white blood cells
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leukocytes
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the fibrous insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood
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fibrin
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the fibrous insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood
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fibrin
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blood cell formation
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hematopoiesis
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the presence of an abnormally large number of erythrocytes in the blood
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polycythemia
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stoppage of blood flow
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hemostasis
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a free floating obstuctor of blood vessel by blood clot, air bubble, or fatty mass floating in the blood
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emblolus
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stem cells that give rise to all the formed elements of blood through secondary stem cells the lymphoid and myeloid
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hemocytoblast
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decrease in number of white blood cells
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leucopenia
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clotting (of blood)
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coagulation
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leukocytosis
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increase in the number of white blood cells
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an inherited clotting defect caused by absence of blood-clotting factor
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hemophilia
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AB can receive A, B, AB, O so it is called the
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Universal recipient
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O cant receive A and B, only O, so it is called the
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Universal donor
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Rh- mother's antibodies attack her RH+ unborn baby's blood
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reticulocyte
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fetal liver, spleen and later bone marrow to make RBC's
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erythroblastosis
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lymphocytes that produces antibodies
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Type B lymphocytes
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an accumulation of bile pigments in the blood producing a yellow color of skin and scalera
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jaundice
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blockage of the coronary arteries of the heart with fixed obstruction of fat
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coronary thrombosis
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any substance, including toxins, foreign proteins, or bacteria; that when introduced into the body, is recognized as foreign and activates the immune system
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antigen
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the passage of blood cells through intact vessel walls into the tissues
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diapedesis
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