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| What are the three sub-bullets under "transportation" in the circulatory system? |
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| respiratory, nutritive, and excretory |
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| How does transportation support homeostasis? |
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| moving essential nutrients throughout the body |
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| What does the cardiovascular system consist of? |
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| What does the pumping action of the heart create? |
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| pressure needed to push blood through vessels to lungs and tissues |
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| How many liters of blood can an adult heart pump at rest (per minute) |
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| What do blood vessels do? |
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| permit blood flow from heart to the cells and back to the heart |
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| What is the flow of blood? (arrows) |
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| arteries --> arterioles -> capillaries -> venules -> veins |
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| What does the respiratory portion of the circ system transport? |
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| What are the two regulatory functions in the circulatory system? |
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| What proteins act against pathogens? |
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| leukocytes, cytokines and complement proteins |
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| How does the circ system aid in protection? |
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| protects the body from blood loss due to injury and against pathogens that are introduced into the body |
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| What are the components of the blood? |
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| straw-colored fluid with dissolved solutes and clotting factors |
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| same as plasma but without clotting factors |
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| Where in the centrifuged tube do you find platelets and white blood cells? |
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| the 'buffy coat' in the formed elements |
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| Where in the centrifuge do you find red blood cells? |
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| What is the major component (90%) of plasma? |
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| What is 7-9 percent of plasma? |
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| What is the smallest plasma protein? and what percentage of the total plasma proteins is it? |
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| How do albumins affect osmotic pressure? |
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| They provide the colloid osmotic pressure needed to draw water from the surrounding tissue fluid into the capillaries. This action is needed to maintain blood volume and pressure |
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| What plasma protein carries various substances that are poorly soluble in plasma, for transport in the plasma? |
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| What are the three types of globulins? |
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| What are alpha and beta plasma proteins? |
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| They are globulins that transport lipids and fat soluble vitamins |
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| What are gamma plasma proteins? |
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| globulin antibodies produced by lymphocytes and function in immunity |
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| Fibrinogen accounts for what percent of plasma proteins? |
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| What does fibrinogen form? |
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| insoluble fibrin threads essential in blood hemostatis |
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| In total, what is in plasma? |
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| water, plasma proteins, ions, metabolites, hormones, and blood gases |
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| glatened, bioconcave discs that provide increased surface area for gas diffusion |
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| What do erythrocytes lack? and what is their life span? |
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| nuclei and mitochondria, 120 days |
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| What is the function of erythrocytes? |
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| How many hemoglobin molecules does one erythrocyte contain? |
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| How many molecules of oxygen is each hemoglobin molecule able to bind |
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| What do leukocytes contain? |
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| nuclei, mitochondria and other organelles |
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| ameboid fashion and squeeze through pores in capillary walls |
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| How do leukocytes move in capillary walls? |
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| diapedesis or extravasation |
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| Leukocytes: Granulocytes: 3 |
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| basophils, eosinophils, neutrophils |
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| Leukocytes: Agranulocytes: 2 |
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| Agranulocytes structure: small lymphocytes |
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| Agranulocytes structure: monocytes |
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| Granulocyte structure: neutrophil |
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| Granulocyte structure: Eosinophil |
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| bilobed nucleus; red cytoplasmic granules |
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| Granulocyte structure: Basophil |
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| bilobed nucleus, purplish-black cytoplasmic granules |
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| What percent of white blood cell are lymphocytes? |
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| What is the life of a lymphocyte? |
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| What are lymphocytes considered? |
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| part of the immune system which fight against microorganisms, foreign substances, cancet, etc. |
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| Do lymphocytes have specific granules? |
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| What type of cellular junk do you find in lymphocytes? |
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| mitochondria, sparse SER, many polysomes and a small Golgi apparatus |
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| How are leukocytes classified? |
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| Chart on all the white blood cells, no way am I making flashcards for all that |
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| What are the smallest of the formed elements? What do they lack? |
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| what are platelets derived from? |
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| megakaryotyces in the bone marrow |
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| What is the primary function of platelets and how long do they live? |
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| hemostasis, and 5-10 days |
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| they are found on the surface of cells to help the immune system recognize self cells |
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| they are secreted by lymphocytes in response to foreign cells |
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| antigens on erythrocyte cell surface |
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| When does a hemolytic transfusion reaction occur? |
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| if mismatched blood is infused |
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| When does agglutination occur? |
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| when donor blood is incompatible with recipient blood. |
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| During a transfusion, what cells are transferred into the recipient? What is the exception to this? |
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| red, if they are a perfect match |
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| Presence of an Rh (Rho(D) or D antigen) is denoted by what? |
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| Absence of an Rh (Rho(D) or D antigen) is denoted by what? |
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| When will Rh-negative people produce antibodies? |
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| when they are exposed to the Rh antigen |
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| Blood type A is what combination of genotypes? |
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| What are the three stages of hemostasis? |
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| Vascular spasm, chemotaxis platelet aggregation and platelet plug formation |
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| What is the intrinsic pathway associated with fibrinogen -> fibrin |
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| blood left in a test tube will clot on its own without the addition of external chemicals |
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| What is the extrinsic pathway associated with fibrinogen -> fibrin |
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| damaged tissues release chemicals that initiate clotting |
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| What is the circulatory system composed of? |
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| heart, blood vessels, and blood |
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| Super long definition of blood |
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| a fluid type: connective tissue which circulated through cardiovascular system and is the transport medium which gasses minerals, hormones and nutrient materials are transported over long distances of the body |
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| What are the formed elements? |
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| erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets |
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| Which of the formed elements are the heaviest? |
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| Platelets are fragments of what? |
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| What are the staining things of a platelet? |
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Dark-staining granular portion: chromomere
light-staining portion: hyalomere |
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