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Blood
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River of life; transports everything that must be carred from one place to another within the body.
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Formed Elements
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suspended in a nonliving fluid matrix
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Blood
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River of life; transports everything that must be carred from one place to another within the body.
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Formed Elements
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suspended in a nonliving fluid matrix.
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Plasma
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Nonliving fluid matrix; liquid part of blood.
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Hematocrit
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A percentage of blood sample called this.
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Erthrocytes
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Red blood cells
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Hemoglobin
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An iron-bearing protein; transports the bild of the oxygen that is carried in the blood.
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Anemia
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Lower than normal number of RBC's; Abormal or defiecent hemoglobin content in the RBC's.
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Sickle Cells Anemia
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Abnomral hemoglobin formed becomes spiky and sharp.
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Polycythemia
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excessive or abnormal increase of RBC's.
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Leukocytes
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White blood cells; consists of 1 % of total blood volume.
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Leukocytosis
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a total white blood count highter than 11000 cell/mm3
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Leuopenia
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an abnormally low WBC count.
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Granulocytes
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WBC; lobed nuclei
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Neutophiles
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multilobed nucleus and very fine grandules that respond to both acid and basic stains; avid phagocytes at sites of acute infection.
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Eosinophones
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blue-red nucleus that resemebles an old fashion phone; their number increases when alergies and infections by arasitic worms.
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Basophiles
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rarest of the WBCs;large histamine; is an inflammatory chemical that makes blood vesseles leaky and attracts other WBCs to the inflammatory site.
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Agranulocytes
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lack visible cytoplasmic granules; spherical
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Lymphoytes
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large dark purple nucleus that takes up most of the cell volume; play in the immune system response.
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Monocytes
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largest of the WBC's; Change into macrophages when migrated into tissues.
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Macrophages
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very important in fighting chronic infection.
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Phatelets
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are not cells in the strict sense.
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Heratopoiesis
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occurs in red bone marrow; found in the pelvis
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Hemocytoblasts
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assigned to a specific blood pathway it cannot change.
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Erythropoietin
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A hormone in charge of erythrocyte production.
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Thrombus
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A clot that develops and persists in an unbroken vessel.
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Embolus
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is no problem unless it gets lodged in a blood vessel too narrow for it to pass thru; i.e. cerebral embolus - stroke
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Thrombocytopenia
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insufficient number of circulating platelets.
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Hemphilia
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bleeding disrder that result from a lack of any of the factors needed for clotting.
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Antigen
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a substance that the body recognizes as foreign.
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Aggulination
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binding of antibodies causing RBC's to clump.
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Hemolysis
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Rupture of RBC's
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