Category 1
A disorder that is caused by not enough oxygen transportation by RBCs
What is anemia?
When a neutrophil engulfs a pathogen and its metabolic rate increases dramatically
What is Respiratory Burst?
This can call a recall of fluids from large amounts of blood loss.
What is a hemorrage?
These are composed of desmosomes and gap junctions.
What are intercalated discs?
This lessens as vessel diameter increases.
What is friction?
The location of blood cell production in adults.
When lysozomes of the neutrophil fuse with vesicles containing pathogens.
What is degranulation?
Fluid moves out of the blood and builds up in peripheral tissues.
What is edema?
A general thickening and toughening of arrterial walls
What is arteriosclerosis?
These respond to changes in blood pressure
What are baroreceptors?
This determines if blood type is positive or negative
What is Rh factor?
this chemical prevents blood clotting
What is heparin?
This allows blood to enter into the inferior vena cava and right atrium with breath.
What is the Respiratory Pump?
A bulge in a weakened arterial wall
What is an aneurysm?
What is type O blood?
this chemical dilates blood vessels.
What is histamine?
AN excessive immune response to antigens
What is Hypersensitivities?
This structure is a fibrous band leftover from an important fetal blood vessel.
What is the ligamentum arteriosum?
Regardless of pathway, this can lead to cell lysis, opsonization, or histamine release
What is the Complement System?
This occurs if there is a second pregnancy of a Rh+ fetus to an Rh- mother.
What is hemolytic disease of the newborn?
these are cell fragments invovled in the clotting process
What are platelets?
An irregularity in the normal rhythm of the heartbeat.
What is an arrhythmia?
This is when platelets attach to the site of injury.
What is the platelet phase of blood clot formation?
This is when an increase in venous return stretches the right atrium, increasing heart rate.
What is the Bainbridge Reflex