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