Blood I
These formed elements cause the blood to clot.
What are platelets?
The liquid part of the blood called
What is plasma?
The blood cells that transport oxygen
What are red blood cells?
The blood cells that fight infections
What are white blood cells?
Clot formed in the vein of the leg travels to lung?
What is an embolus?
These molecules, which locate on the surface red blood cells, cause the production of antibodies.
What are antigens?
The universal donor
What is type O negative blood?
What are granulocytes/WBCs?
Disorder associated with iron poor blood
What is anemia?
Process by which the body stops blood loss
What is hemostasis?
What are the blood types?
What are blood types? What is type A, B, AB, and O
85% of the population have this Rhesus factor.
What is Rhesus positive, Rh+?
Lymphocytes and monocytes
What are agranulocytes/WBCs?
The length of a red blood cell's life
What is 4 months?
Process that formed elements of blood are made in red bone marrow
What is hemopoiesis?
The shape of red blood cells
What is biconcave?
The sites where RBCs get broken down
What is liver or spleen?
Site where blood cells are made
What is the bone marrow?
What is a blood clot that is lodged?
What is thrombus?
Endocrine gland which produces mature and fully functional T-cells
What is thymus gland?
The Ph of blood
The universal recipient
WHat is type AB?
A cell organelle that RBCs do not have
What is nucleus or mitochondria?
What occurs to a negative blood type after being introduced to positive blood for the first time?
What is a Rh antibodies form?
What system filter blood and produces waste that is excreted?
What is the urinary system?