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Name the Agranulocytes

Monocytes and lymphocytes

Name the Granulocytes

Basophils, neutrophils, and eosinophils

Monocytes

Biggest blood cell


Kidney shaped


Phagocytize bacteria and viruses

What is basophil's function?

Enhance inflammatory response

What is neutrophil

Phagocytize bacteria

What does eosinophil's function?

Fight parasitic organisms

What is a lymphocyte's function?

Regulate immune response

What is hematocrit

Percent of blood made up of RBC's


Assesses oxygen carrying capacity


Range


Men: 40%-54%


Women: 38%-46%

What is an antigen

Surface of eurythrocytes

What are platelets

Cell fragments

What is anemia?

Deficiency of RBC's or of hemoglobin in the blood

Hemolytic disease

When mother's body creates antibodies when a baby has a different rh but only happens to second or third child

Agglutination

Clumping

Universal donor

Type O blood

Universal Recipient

Type AB

What hormones does the hypothalamus secrete?

Releasing factors

What hormones does the pineal gland secrete?

Melatonin


Biological clock

What hormones does the pituitary gland secrete?

ADH/Oxytocin


Water homeostasis/ birth contractions

What hormones does the thyroid gland secrete?

Thyroxine


Metabolic rate

What hormones does the adrenal glands secrete?

Adrenaline/cortisol


Fight or flight/ anti-stress