Bloody Basics......
This is the liquid portion of the blood containing electrolytes, nutrients, waste products, vitamins, hormones, clotting factors, and proteins.
What is plasma?
This is the percentage of plasma that is water.
What is 90%?
This is the term for the percentage of blood made up of red blood cells.
What is hematocrit?
White blood cells are part of this system.
What is the immune system?
Platelets help blood to do this.
What is clot?
Blood accounts for this percentage of total body weight.
What is 8%?
Plasma can sometimes appear this way after a high-fat meal.
What is milky?
This is the average number of red blood cells per cubic microliter of blood.
What is 5,000,000?
This is the average number of white blood cells per cubic microliter of blood.
What is 7,000?
This is the average number of platelets per cubic microliter of blood.
What is 250,000?
This organ is responsible for processing waste products for elimination from the blood.
What is the liver?
This is blood that has been allowed to clot and then filtered.
What is blood serum?
This is the ratio of red blood cells to white blood cells in normal blood.
What is 600:1?
When the number of white blood cells increases, it is a sign of this.
What is an infection?
Besides forming a platelet plug, platelets also help blood to clot through these factors.
What are coagulation factors?
This is the average volume of blood in liters for males.
What is 5 to 6 liters?
Blood that is allowed to clot and then filtered is called blood serum and contains none of these factors.
What are clotting factors?
This molecule in red blood cells is specially designed to hold oxygen and carry it to cells that need it.
What is hemoglobin?
In a healthy adult, the number of white blood cells per microliter of blood should fall between these two numbers.
What are 4,000 and 10,000
These are the smallest cells found in the blood.
What are platelets?
A blood loss of this percentage, internally or externally, is required to produce irreversible shock (death).
What is 40%?
This is the shape of a red blood cell.
What is a biconcave disc?
Mature red blood cells lack this, which makes them unable to synthesize proteins or repair themselves.
What is a nucleus?
A high white blood cell count can indicate infection, whereas a low white blood cell count might signal this.
What is a compromised immune system?
Platelets have a lifespan of only 5 to 9 days and are continually being removed and replaced by these organs.
What is the spleen and liver?