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Blood is a complex mixture of?
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Cells(red and White)chemicals and fluid
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What are the functions of blood?
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Transportation throughout the whole body and maintaining homeostasis
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Blood includes what three types of cells?
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Red, white, platelets
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A blood hematocrit is usually -----%cells and ____% plasma
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45 55
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RBC is the same as?
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Erythrocyte
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Red blood cells contain?
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hemoglobin
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Red blood cells discard what during development and so they can not reproduce or produce proteins?
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nuclei
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What is the red blood count for males and females?
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4.6-6.2mm3 for male and 4.5-5.4mm3 for women
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In the embryo and fetus the red blood cell production occurs in the what?
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yolk sac, liver and spleen
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After birth the red blood cell procuction occurs where?
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in the red bone marrow
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with age the red blood cells become increasingly fragile and damaged by passing through the what?
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Capillaries
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Where are damaged red blood cells phagocytized?
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The liver and the spleen
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WBC are = to what?
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leukocyte
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What are the three granular white blood cells
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neutrophils eosinophils basophils
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What are the two agranular white blood cells
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monocytes and lymphocytes
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What is the basic function of the white blood cells?
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immunity response and prevents disease
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Normally a cubic millimeter of blood contains how many white blood cells?
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5000mm3 to 10000mm3
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Plasma is mostly what?
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water but contains a variety of substances
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What is the function of plasma
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transports nutrients and gases and regulates the fluid balance, electrolites, homeostatis
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What are the two most important gases?
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oxygen and carbon dioxide
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The clumping of red blood cells following transfusion is called?
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glutination
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The clumping is due to the interation of proteins on the surfaces of red blood cells called
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antigens
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What is an antibody
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a special protein in blood plasma and it can react wiht antigens
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certain proteins carried in the plasma are?
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antibodies
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what is an antigen?
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a special protein found on the surface of a red blood cell
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Type A blood has what type of antigen and antibodies?
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Antigen A and antiB
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Type Bhas
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b antigen and anti a
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Type ab has
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ab antigens and no antibodies
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type o has
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o antigens and both anti a and b
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What are white blood cells formed from?
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hemocytoblast
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what are the largest blood cells?
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monocytes
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by what process do leukocytes squeeze through the blood vessle wall?
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diapedesis
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What wbc destroy damaged rbc
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macrophages and lymphocytes
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Which wbc is most numerous?
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neutrophils and lymphocytes
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pulmonary valve is the same as what?
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pulmonary semilunar valve
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Which blood vessles can act as a reservoir for blood?
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veins
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A differential count is what?
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a list of the percentages of the different types of wbcx
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Where does the myocardium get its blood?
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coronary arteries that come off from the aortic valve
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What produces platelets?
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megakaryocytes
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megakarcyocytes are found where?
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red bone marrow
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The most numerous white blood cells are
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Neutrophils
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The white blood cell that forms antibodies necessary for immunity to specific diseases is the
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lymphocytes
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The white cell that would increase in certain parasitic infections and allergic reactions is
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eosinophils
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The most mobile and phagocytic white cells are
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neutrophils and monocytes
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a blood clot forming adnormally in a blood vessel is?
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thombis
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