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The definitio of _?_ is the percentage of red blood cells per volume of blood.
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Hematocrit.
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What is the normal hematocrit for an adult male? Adult female?
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47 +/- 5%
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If someone has too many blood cells, they have a condition known as _?_.
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Polycythemia.
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If someone has too few red blood cells they have a condition known as_?_.
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Anemia.
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If you have inadequate amoutns of intrinsic factor, you will have inadequate absorption of which vitamin?
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B12.
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If you have inadequate amounts of the vitamin B12 you will have inadequate cell _?_.
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Division.
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If you have inadequate amounts of intrinsic factor you have white type of anemia?
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Pernicious anemia.
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If you have inqdequate iron, you cannot synthesize enough of what molecule that is contained in red blood cells?
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Hemoglobin.
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If you have inadequate iron, you have what type of anemia?
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Iron-deficiency anemia.
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Hemoglobin of RBC's of someone with sickle cell anemia differs from hemoglobin of normal RBC's. How?
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1 different amino acid.
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_?_ aneia occurs due to a defect in the bone marrow.
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Aplastic anemia.
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Should movign to a higher elevation increase, decrease, or have no effect on the number of red blood cells one has?
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Increase.
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What does erythrocyte sedimentation rate mean?
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How fast red blood cells settle per hour.
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In what units is the ESR measured?
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mm/hr.
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In some diseases, RBC's clump so that they are a stack of RBC's. This is called _?_.
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Rouleaux formation.
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The stacking of red blood cells is due to the interaction of the red blod cells with _?_ or _?_.
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Fibrogen or antibodies.
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The ESR test is used to follow what?
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The progression of disease.
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The worse a disease gets the _?_ the ESR rate (and vice versa).
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Higher.
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Who will have the higher ESR: a person with a myocardial infarction or a person with angina pectoris?
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Myocardial infarction.
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Who will have the higher ESR: a person with sickle cell anemia or a person with iron-deciciency anemia?
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Iron-deficiency anemia.
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About how many hemoglobin molecules are there per erythrocyte?
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250 million.
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How many oxygen molecules can one hemoglobin molecule carry? Why?
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Four because the oxygens bind to the heme group and each hemoglobin only has 4 heme groups.
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