Blood Composition
What percentage of Plasma is water?
What is 92%
What live about 10 days?
What are platelets.
What is hemoglobin.
What is our first line of defense...our Marines?
What are Neutrophils.
What defends our body against disease?
What are Leukocytes.
Where do we get our blood type from?
What is from our parents.
What protects us against allergic reactions and asthma?
What are Basophils.
What is a clot that travels through the blood called?
What is a Embolus?
What blocks blood flow and kills tissue and muscles as a result?
What is an Infarction.
What's another name for the fatty deposits on the artery walls called?
What is plaque.
What are the 2 blood gases in Plasma?
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What white blood cell protects the body against fungal and parasites?
What are Eosinophils.
What does the heart, blood, and blood vessels make up?
What is the Circulatory System.
What's another name for Vascular Spasm?
What is vasospasm.
During Platelet Plugging, platelets adhere to the exposed edges of ____________ blood vessels?
What are damaged.
What are amino acids, simple sugars, nucleotides and lipids?
What are Plasma nutrients.
What white blood cell is responsible for our ongoing immunity?
What are lymphocytes.
What is the name of a high and low platelet count?
What is Thrombocytosis for a high count and Thrombocytopenia for a low platelet count?
What are the 3 different gases in Plasma?
What is Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon Dioxide.
What is a group of white blood cells called?
A. Granulocytes
B. Leucocytes
C. Hemostasis
D. Plasma
What is Granulocytes.
What is the percentage of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the blood?
What is 95% Red Blood Cells, 4% Platelets, and 1% White Blood Cells.
What white blood cell finds, destroys and eliminates infection?
What are Monocytes.
What are the 3 different types of clotting which slows down blood loss?
What is Vasospasm, Platelet Plug, and Blood Coagulation.
What blocks blood flow and kills tissue supplied by that vessel?
A. Infarction
B. Embolus
C. Platelet plug
D. Hemoglobin
What is an infarction.
What is the body's natural state called and what is the name for the stoppage of blood?
What is homeostasis and hemostasis.