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| What type of tissue is blood? |
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| What is the functions of blood? |
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| Protection from infectious agents, Hemostasis (blood's mechanism to stop bleeding), transportation of gasses, nutrients, waste, hormones, drugs and infectious agents and regulation of bodily fluid (pH and body temp). |
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| The total volume of whole blood occupied by cellular elements. |
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| RBC, WBC, platelets, etc. |
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| The matrix of blood and constitutes 55% of whole blood. |
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| How much of whole blood is RBC? |
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| How much of whole blood is platelets and WBC's? |
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| Low hematocrit. <4.5 million/mm3 RBC. |
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| high hematocrit. >5.5 million/mm3 RBC. |
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| How do you calculate the hematocrit? |
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| RBC / Total Blood Volume. (normal around 45%) |
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| 90% H20, 10% mixture of gasses, electrolytes, hormones, proteins, drugs, waste products and infectious agents. |
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| What affects total blood volume? |
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| Body size, injury, gender and changes to plasma volume. |
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| Protein located inside the RBC which has 4 heme groups. |
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| What is in each heme group? |
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| What is carbaminohemoglobin? |
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| What are the 2 kinds of WBC's? |
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| granular(w/ granules in cytoplasm) and agranular(w/o granules in cytoplasm). |
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| What are the granular WBC's? |
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| Neutrophil, Eosinophil, Basophil. |
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| What are the agranular WBC's? |
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| "cytes" - Lymphocyte and monocyte. |
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| List WBC's in order of most common -> least common. |
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| Neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophil, basophil. |
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| What are the 2 kinds of lymphocytes? |
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| What are the 2 kinds of T-Lymphocyte cells? |
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| Helper T-Cell (CD4) and Cytotoxic (CD8). |
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| What is the CD4 function? |
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| coordinates and controls all immune processes. (HIV attacks this cell) |
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| What is the CD8 function? |
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| Attacks viral infected cells so viruses cannot reproduce. Attacks tumor cells. This cell is responsible for tissue rejection. |
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| What is the B-Lymphocyte's function? |
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| What is monocytes function? |
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| What is neutrophil's function? |
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| What is eosinophil's function? |
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| What is basophil's function? |
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| Platelets. Cell fragments of megakaryocytes. Functions in hemostasis. |
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| What is thrombocytopenia? |
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| Surface marker. In RBC's, it says that cell belongs to you. |
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| What is an antibody (Ab)? |
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| Comes from B-Cells in plasma. If a foreign antigen interacts with 1 of your antibodies, the blood with aglutinate (clump). |
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| O has neither A or B antigens, has both anti-A and anti-B antibodies, has Rh antigen as well. |
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