Exam 6 Part 2

What are chemical messengers called?

Hormones

What do white blood cells do?

Fight infections

What do platelets do?

Help the blood clot

WBC

Leukocyte

What is the medical term for platelet?

Thrombocyte

• What is an immature red blood cell called? (Erythroblast)

Erythroblast

Where do erythrocytes originate?

Bone marrow

What are cells in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow that destroy worn-out erythrocytes?

Macrophages

What is a phagocyte?

Cell that eats and destroys foreign material in body

• What are fibrinogen and prothrombin? (Clotting proteins)

• What does albumin do? (Maintains the proper proportion and concentration of water in the blood)

• What are globulins? (Another part of the blood containing plasma proteins: alpha, beta, and gamma globulins)

• What are immunoglobulins? (Antibodies that bind to and sometimes destroy antigens or foreign substances, ie., IgG, IgA)

What is Rh factor? What is the difference between Rh-positive and Rh-negative

• What is blood clotting or coagulation?

1.The blood contains which of the  following to transport oxygen? (rbc)

blood containd which clotting cells (thrombocytes)

base

bas/o

color

chrom/o

clotting

coagul/o

cell

cyt/o

red

eosin/o, erythr/o

nucelus

nucel/o

granules

granul/o

blood

hem/o, hemat/o

hemoglobin

hemoglobin/o

same/equal

is/o

nucleus

kary/o

shape. form

morph/o

bone marrow

myel/o

neutral

neutr/o

eat, swallow

phag/o

varied, irregular

poikil/o

iron

sider/o

globe, round

spher/o

clot

thromb/o

• What is thrombolytic therapy? (Used to dissolve clots)

• What is plasmapheresis? (A centrifuge spins blood to remove plasma from the other parts of the blood.)

•What is the most common type of anemia? (Iron-deficiency anemia)

• What is an example of hemolytic anemia? (Congenital spherocytic anemia)

.  What is the most common type of anemia?

A.Hemolytic anemia

B.Sickle cell anemia

C.Iron deficiency anemia

D.Aplastic anemia

c

•What is a treatment for hemophilia? (Administration of the deficient factor)

• What is autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura? (A condition in which a patient’s body makes an antibody that destroys platelets)

•What are characteristics of acute leukemia?

• What form of leukemia is most often in children and adolescents? (ALL)

• What form of leukemia usually occurs in the elderly and follows a slowly progressive course? (CLL)

What is eosinophilia? (An increase in eosinophilic granulocytes, seen in certain allergic conditions)

•What is the speed at which erythrocytes settle out of plasma? (ESR or sed rate)

• What test finds the total amount of hemoglobin in a sample of peripheral blood? (Hemoglobin test)

•What is the number of leukocytes per cubic millimeter or microliter? (WBC)

• What determines the percentage of the total WBC made up by different types of leukocytes? (White blood cell differential)

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4 blood tpes, a, b, ab, o

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