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19 Cards in this Set
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Which of the four basic tissue types is
blood? |
Connective
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What are the two basic components of
blood? |
Formed Elements
Plasma |
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Osmotic pressure and transport insoluble
molecules – |
Albumins
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Antibodies and transport insoluble
molecules – |
Globulins
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Clotting –
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Fibrinogen
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What do we call the percentage of whole
blood contributed by formed elements? |
Hematocrit
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What is the technical term for red blood
cells? |
Erythrocytes
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Describe the shape of a red blood cell.
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Bi-concave disc
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Why don’t red blood cells use oxygen or
replicate themselves? |
Lack mitochondria
Lack a nucleus |
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What do we call the small, enzyme
containing membranous sacs that result from the fragmentation of megakaryocytes? |
Platelets
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What is the technical term for white blood
cells? |
Leukocytes
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What kinds of white blood cells are granular
(stain with a neutral dye), have a multilobed nucleus, and are active phagocytes? |
Neutrophils
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What kinds of white blood cells are granular
(stain red with an acidic dye), have a bilobed nucleus, and phagocytize compounds that have reacted with antibodies as well as reducing inflammation? |
Eosinophils
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What kinds of white blood cells are granular
(stain purple with a basic dye), and contain histamine and heparin that promote inflammation. |
Basophils
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What kinds of white blood cells are
agranular, the largest of WBCs, have a kidney-bean shaped nucleus, and are known as free macrophages outside of the bloodstream. |
Monocytes
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What kind of white blood cells are
agranular, have very little cytoplasm around a large nucleus, and are responsible for what is termed specific immunity (the ability to respond to invades on an individual basis, including the ability to retain |
Lymphocytes
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Attack foreign cells directly
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T-cells
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Produce antibodies to foreign invaders–
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B-cells
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Destroy abnormal tissues –
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Natural Killer Cells
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