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Renal/Urinary&Blood
Kidneys & Blood
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the functional unit of the kidney? | Nephron |
| Where are 80% - (800,000) of nephrons found? | Cortex |
| How many nephrons are found in one kidney? | 1 million |
| What are the components of a nephron? | Glomerulus, bowman's capsule, PCT, Loop of Henle, DCT, Collecting duct |
| What is a nephron? (At the beginning, blood is filtered into "filtrate". It travels through the nephron and eventually becomes urine) | A highly convoluted tubule. |
| What part of the nephron controls the process of filtration? | Renal Corpuscle |
| A hemoglobin molecule can carry a maximum number of ____ oxygen molcules: | 4 |
| These type of white blood cells can help in sex determination as they contain the "barr body" in females only | Neutrophil |
| the normal ph of blood can be | 7.35-7.45 |
| a macrophage is transformed | monocyte |
| this plasma protien is the main protein that is involved in the process of clotting | fibronogen |
| when iron inside a heme group is the "ferric type" this type of hemoglobin is correctly termed: | methemoglobin |
| this type of iron locatedin the cnetr of the "heme group" inside the globin chain of a normal type of hemoglobin: | ferrous fe++ |
| A hypersegmented neutrophil is classically a sign of | defiency of vit B12 and/or folic acid |
| von willebrand factor is classically bound to | factor 8 |
| the normal range of red blood cells in an adult male is | 4.7-6.1 cells/mcl |
| erythopoiesis is regulated by this organ of the body | kidney |
| these cells are raised in the blood during severe allergic disorders | eosinophils |
| a blood group is termed negative or positive becasue of the presence and absence of the ___ antigen on the surface of the red blood cells | rh antigen |
| a clot is blocking the left coronary artery that supplies the heart. what will be the best medication to detroy the clot and save a life? | tPA |
| clotting factors 2,7,9, & 10 are produced as this vitamin ___ is metabolized by the liver | vitamin K |
| universal. blood donor | O negative |
| most common inherited clotting disorder | Van Willbrands disease |
| this is an evaluation of platelet function | bleeding time (INR) |
| this is an evaluation of the intrinsic pathway of coagulation | partial thromboplastin time(PTT) or activated Partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) |
| least abundant white blood cell | basophil |
| raised in levels/numbers in the blood in "parasitic infestations" | eosinophil |
| this is an evaluation of the extrinsic pathway of coagulation | Prothrombin time (PT) |
| the most abundant plasma protein is | Albumin |
| platelets have a life span of 120 days | false (7days) |
| how much iron is absorbed from the GIT system every day | 1-2 mg/day |