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How does blood appear? |
- thick - sticky red color - fluid tissue - homogenous liquid |
- texture & appearance - fluid tissue |
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What are living blood cells? |
formed elements |
they are formed e_______ which include RBCs & WBCs & platelets |
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What is the non- living fluid matrix? |
Plasma (55% fluid, 45% cells) |
instead of blood, this comes out of popped blisters. |
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what is in the plasma? |
water proteins hormones gases nutrients electrolytes |
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what does water do? |
absorbs heat & carrys substances |
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name some salts & electrolytes? |
-Na+1 K+ Ca+2 Mg+2 Cl- HCO3 |
sodium, magnesium... |
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name some proteins? |
Fibrinogen (clotting) Globulins (antibodies) Albumin (osmotic balance) |
clotting, antibodies, and osmotic balance |
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name some nutrients? |
Glucose Fatty Acid Amino Acids Vitamins |
sugars |
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what's in waste? |
Urea & Uric acid from the metabolism |
U & U acid from M______ |
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What gases are in the plasma / blood? |
Carbon Dioxide & Oxygen |
O2 & CO2 |
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what is the RBC:WBC ratio? |
for every 1000 RBCs there is 1 WBC |
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What is the structure of a red blood cell? |
No nucleus No mitochondria |
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what is the structure of white blood cells ? |
-has nuclei organelles - DNA fingerprinting -able to slip in and out of blood vessels to tissue |
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what is diapediesis? |
Locating tissue damage through chemical signals |
locating a type of damage through a _______ signal. |
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what do the "-phils" contain that makes them different from the "-cytes"? |
Phil's contain granules. |
a & g |
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what do granules contain? |
histamine |
hydrocortisone has this to prevent itching |
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what is the coagulation process? |
Tissue Factor > Prothrombine > Thrombin Fibrinogen > Fibrin > Cross-linked fibrin clot |
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Hematopoiesis Process |
Hematopoiesis is blood cell formation |
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what are agranules? |
no histomine |
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