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Bone wit chapter 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ameboid movement | Movement used by leukocytes that permits them to propel themselves from capillaries into the tissues |
| Anemia | A condition in which there is a decrease in the erythrocytes or amount of hemoglobin in the blood |
| Bilirubin | An orange colored bile pigment produced by the breakdown of heme from the hemoglobin molecule |
| Diapedesis | The ameboid movement of blood cells (especially leukocytes through the wall of a capillary and out into the tissues |
| Hematology | The study of blood and blood forming tissues |
| Hemoglobin | The iron-containing pigment of erythrocytes that transports oxygen in the body |
| Hemolysis | The breakdown of erythrocytes with the release of hemoglobin into the plasma |
| Leukocytosis | An abnomal increase in the number of white blood cells (greater than 11,000 per cubic millimeters of blood) |
| Oxyhemoglobin | Hemoglobin that has combined with oxygen |
| phagocytosis | the engulfing and destruction of foreign particles, such as bacteria, by special cells called phagoctes |
| Polycythemia | A disorder in which there is an increase in the red blood cell mass |