Term | Definition |
What does the blood deliver to every cell in the body? | Oxygen |
What helps protect the body from infection? | Blood |
how much blood does the average body have? | 4-6 liters |
hematocrit (Hct) | The % of blood cells in a sample of blood.A sample of blood normally composed of 45% blood cells and 55% plasma |
blood cells and cell fragments include | Red blood cells (RBC)
White blood cells (WBC) and
Platelets(Thrombocytes) |
The process of blood cell formation | Hemopoiesis |
Blood formation in the red bone marrow | myeloid hemopoieses |
Blood formation in the the lymphatic tissue | Lymphoid hemopoeisis |
How does the red bone marrow produce three different types of blood cells? | They are produced in the red bone marrow from the same cell, called a stem cell |
what is blood composed of? | plasma and blood cells |
contains the antigens A and B | |
Requires erythropoietin for production | |
the reticulocyte is an immature cell of this type | |
| Includes the neutrophil, eosinophil, and basofil |
| A deficiency causes petechiae and bleeding |
| stickiness and plug both describe the fuctional of this cell type |
| primarily concerned with infection |
| Measured as the hematicrit |
| classified as granulocytes and agranulocytes |
| a blood clot in the leg |
| drug that interferes with the hepatic utilizationof vitamin K in the synthesis of prothrombin |
| A traveling or moving blood clot |
| enzymes that dissoves clots |
| an anticoagulent that works by removing thrombin(antithrombin activity |