Big Words
What are Erythrocytes?
Red Blood Cells
Accounting for less than 1% of total blood Volume
Leukocytes
The 3 Components of Blood are
Erythrocytes, Buffy Coat, and Plasma
Digesting Enzyme Clot Buster
Plasmin
Recognition, Attack, Memory
Mechanisms of Immunity
What is Hematopoiesis?
The process by which the body produces blood (bone marrow)
Low White blood Cell Count
Leukopenia
(Chief Phagocyte)- Macrophages- Eats Foreign Invaders
Phagocytosis
Thrombocytopenia
Deficient Platelet Numbers; Spontaneous Bleeding
First line of Defense for nonspecific defense mechanisms
external body membranes such as the skin and mucus
Define Oxyhemoglobin
When oxygen binds to Iron; Goes to the lungs; Transports to every cell in the body.
Cancerous Abnormal White Blood Cells
Leukemia
Thrombocytes
Platelets
Hereditary Bleeding Disorder
Hemophilia
Leukocytes Secrete a chemical called
Pyrogen
Define Deoxyhemoglobin
Detachment of oxygen and iron from hemoglobin located in the tissues.
Second Most Abundant type of White Blood Cell in the Bloodstream
Lymphocytes
Why is inflammation good?
Limits spread of pathogens by allowing it to destroy them.
A Clot That Develops in an unbroken blood Vessel
Thrombus
What is Specific Immunity?
Targets the Defense activity against a specific threat and only that specific threat (Vaccines)
Define Carbaminohemoglobin
Carbon Dioxide combinds with hemoglobin from the tissues to the lungs for elimination.
_______ Fuse with the pseudopod and digests the pathogen particles.
Lysosomes
Blood Rushes to the site causing heat and redness
Hyperemia
Define Embolism
If Thrombus Breaks away and floats in the bloodstream
Internal Defenses in which phagocytes do not allow "it" to spread
Nonspecific immunity- second line of defense