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| how much blood is in the average human? |
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| what does blood consist of? |
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| plasma (50-55%) and blood cells (45-50%) |
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| what are the components of whole blood? |
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| RBCs, several types of WBCs and platelets |
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| transport or exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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| what are WBCs responsible for? |
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| what is platelet activity essential for? |
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| what is hematocrit adn what is it expressed as? |
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| it is the packed cell volume of RBCs. It is expressed as a percentage of the total blood volume |
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| what does MCV stand for and what does it measure? |
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-Mean corpuscular volume
-it measures cell size |
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