Key Terms
What is plasma?
Plasma is the liquid part of the blood.
What does the red bloods cell do?
Red blood cells take up oxygen in the lungs and deliver it to cells elsewhere in the body.
How many blood types are there?
There are four blood types.
What is the lymphatic system?
The lymphatic system is a network of vein like vessels that returns the fluid to the bloodstream.
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White blood cell
What is shock?
Shock is the failure of the circulatory system to provide an adequate supply of oxygen-rich blood to all parts of the body.
What are red blood cells made mostly of?
Red blood cells are made mostly of hemoglobin.
Name all blood types
Blood type A, B, AB and O
What does lymph consists of?
Lymph consists of water and dissolved materials.
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Red blood cell
What are white blood cells?
White blood cells are the body's disease fighters.
Briefly describes what happens to stop the bleeding when you cut yourself.
Platelets and blood cells become trapped in a fiber net and form blood clots.
What is the most common blood type in the U.S.?
The most common blood type is O+.
What do the lymph nodes do?
Lymph nodes filter lymph by trapping bacteria and other disease-causing microorganisms in the fluid.
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Platelets
What is lymph?
Lymph is fluid that is inside the lymphatic system.
What are the four components of blood?
The components of blood are plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
What is a marker molecule? What do they determine?
Marker molecule is the proteins that are on the red blood cells. Proteins such as A and B.
They determine your blood type.
Where does lymph come from?
Lymph comes from the blood traveling through capillaries.
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Plasma
What are lymph nodes?
Lymph nodes are small knobs of tissue where lymph flows through.
People with the disorder hemophilia do not produce the protein fibrin (forms blood clots). Explain why hemophilia is a serious disorder.
Hemophilia is a serious disorder because if fibrin is not produced, blood cannot clot to stop bleedings. This can cause serious blood loss.
Explain why a person with type O blood cannot receive a transfusion of type A blood?
Because O type blood has anti-A clumping proteins that will perceive blood type A markers as foreign and as a result blood cells will clump together.
What happens to lymph after it travels through the lymphatic system?
Lymphatic vessels open into veins and the fluid re-enters the bloodstream.
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Fibrin