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Bone wit chapter 18
Question | Answer |
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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 |