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Blood Vocabualry
Valeria S.
Question | Answer |
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What are formed elements? | The cellular portion of blood. |
What is plasma? | The fluid portion of blood. |
What is hemoglobin? | The oxygen transporting pigments of erythrocytes. |
What is polycythemia? | The presence of abnormally large numbers of erythrocytes. |
What is leukocytosis? | The total white blood cell count above 11,000 cells/mm. |
What is leukemia? | When the white blood in bone marrow becomes cancerous. |
What are platelets? | One of the irregular cell fragments of blood that is involved in clotting. |
What is hematopoieisis? | The formation of blood cells. |