Components of Blood
These are the three layers of a centrifuged blood sample.
What are plasma, buffy coat, and red blood cells?
These two components of blood function in distribution.
What are plasma and RBCs.
This component of blood has a biconcave shape.
What are red blood cells?
An individual with A antigens and anti-B antibodies have this blood type.
What is type A blood?
This 2007 drama/epic followed a turn of the century prospector in the early days of business and featured an impressive run time of 2 hours and 38 minutes.
What is "There will Be Blood"?
These things make up the "formed elements" in blood.
What are white blood cells, platelets, and red blood cells?
This component of blood functions in both regulation and distribution.
What is plasma?
True or False: Mature RBCs have a nucleus.
What is False.
This blood type is considered the "Universal Donor".
What is Type O?
What are erythrocytes?
These types of blood cells make up about 45% of blood.
What are red blood cells?
This component of blood protects against foreign microorganisms and diseases.
What are white blood cells?
The clumping together of blood or platelets is known as this.
What is agglutination?
A patient needs a blood transfusion and they have type B blood. What blood types can they receive in a transfusion?
What are types B and O?
This is the scientific name of white blood cells/
What are leukocytes?
This makes of about 55% of blood and is made primarily of water.
What is plasma?
These are the three main functions of blood.
Blood types are named based on the _________________ that are present on the Red blood cell.
This blood type is known as the "Universal Recipient".
What is type AB?
This is the scientific name of platelets.
What are thrombocytes?
This component of blood allows for clotting and prevents the major loss of blood from minor scrapes and cuts.
What are platelets?
Red blood cells rely on this to carry oxygen to cells and carbon dioxide away from cells.
What is hemoglobin?
When a white blood cell finds a microorganism, it surrounds and engulfs it in a process known as this.
What is phagocytosis?
Why is type AB considered the universal recipient?
What is a lack of Anti-A and Anti-B antibodies.
The Rh in "Rh system" refers to what?
What is the Rhesus antigen/antibody?