Blood Basics
What is the liquid part of blood called?
What is plasma?
Which blood cell transports oxygen?
What is a red blood cell (RBC)?
Which plasma protein maintains osmotic pressure?
What is albumin?
What is the process of blood cell formation?
What is hematopoiesis?
Name the heart chamber that pumps blood to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
What percentage of blood is plasma?
What is about 55%?
What protein in RBCs binds to oxygen?
What is hemoglobin?
Which protein is essential for clotting?
What is fibrinogen?
Where are blood cells produced?
What is red bone marrow?
What valve lies between the left atrium and left ventricle?
What is the mitral/bicuspid valve?
What are the three formed elements in blood?
What are RBCs, WBCs, and platelets?
Name two types of white blood cells.
What are neutrophils and lymphocytes? (Other answers: Monocytes, basophils etc..)
Which protein group includes antibodies?
What are globulins?
What hormone stimulates RBC production?
What is erythropoietin?
What is the name of the heart’s natural pacemaker?
What is the SA node?
Which component of blood helps stop bleeding?
What are platelets?
Which WBC type is involved in allergies and parasitic infections?
What are eosinophils?
Where are plasma proteins made?
What is the liver?
Which organ releases erythropoietin?
What are the kidneys?
Blood from the lungs returns to which chamber?
What is the left atrium?
What condition is caused by low RBCs or hemoglobin?
What is anemia?
Which WBC becomes a macrophage?
What is a monocyte?
What term describes the stopping of bleeding?
What is hemostasis?
What triggers increased erythropoietin secretion?
What is low oxygen levels?
What are the “lub-dub” heart sounds caused by?
What is valve closure?