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| Composition of blood plasma |
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| water containing many dissolved substances (food, salts and hormones) |
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| Varies with size and sex. 4 to 6 Liters about average, 7-9% of body weight. |
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| disk-shaped without a nucleus |
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| transports oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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| the inability of blood to carry adequate oxygen to tissues |
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1-inadequate red blood cell levels
2-deficiency of hemoglobin |
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| deficiency of vitamin B12 |
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| abnormally high red blood cell count |
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| medical test in which a centrifuge is used to separate whole blood into formed elements and liquid fraction |
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| white blood cell and platelet fraction |
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| Normal red blood cell level |
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| What can cause an erroneous test result with a hematocrit test? |
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Red blood cells
White blood cells |
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| types of granular leukocytes |
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| neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils |
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| types of nongranular leukocytes |
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| lymphocytes and monocytes |
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| 4-5 million per mm of blood |
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| 5,000-10,000 per mm of blood |
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| red bone marrow (myeloid tissue) forms all blood cells except some lymphocytes and monocytes, which are formed by lymphatic tissue in the lymph nodes, thymus and spleen. |
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| General function of white blood cells |
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| What is revealed in an differential white blood cell count? |
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| proportions of each type of white blood cell |
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| abnormally low white blood cell count |
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| abnormally high white blood cell count |
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| What carries out phagocytosis? |
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| neutrophils and monocytes |
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| What do lymphocytes produce? |
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| antibodies (B-lymphocytes) or directly attack foreign cells (T-lymphocytes) |
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| protect against parasitic irritants that cause allergies |
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| What do biophils produce? |
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| Heparin, which inhibits clotting |
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| Blood clot formation step one |
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| clotting factors released at the injury site produce prothrombin activator |
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| Blood clot formation step two |
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| prothrombin activator and calcium convert prothrombin to thrombin |
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| Blood clot formation step three |
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| thrombin triggers formation of fibrin, which traps red blood cells to form a clot. |
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| substance that can activate the immune system |
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| substance made by the body in response to stimulation by an antigen |
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| Type a self-antigens in red blood cells; anti type B antibodies in plasma |
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| type B self-antigens in red blood cells; anti type A antibodies in plasma |
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| type A and type B self-antigens in red blood cells; no anti type A or type B antibodies in plasma |
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| no type A or B self antigens in red blood cells; both anti type A and type B antibodies in plasma |
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| Rh factor antigen present in red blood cells |
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| no Rh factor present in red blood cells; no anti-Rh antibodies present naturally in plasma; anti Rh antibodies, however, appear in the plasma of Rh negative persons if Rh positive red blood cells have been introduced into their bodies. |
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| Universal recipient blood |
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| may occur when Rh negative mother carries a second Rh positive fetus; caused by mothers antibodies reacting with babies Rh positive cells. |
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