Exam 27: The Blood

Monocytes and lymphocytes do not have granules in their cytoplasm and are two types of ________.

The most likely result of agglutination following a blood transfusion is ____.

The clumping of red blood cells following a blood transfusion is ________.

Bloodletting for the purpose of reducing the thickness of a person's blood is known as ________ phlebotomy.

Erythroblastosis fetalis is prevented by giving an Rh-negative woman the drug ________, which prevents an Rh-negative mother from making antibodies against the Rh antigen.

The fluid that is left when all clotting factors are removed from plasma is called ________.

A white blood cell count that is below normal is called ________.

Some WBCs leave the blood vessels by a mechanism called ____.

You will recognize that a patient's infection has existed for about 2 weeks if the WBC differential shows ____.

Which of the following patients is most likely to have thalassemia?

The production of RBCs in the blood is controlled by which hormone?

Globulins are plasma proteins that ____.

The second Rh-positive child born to an Rh-negative mother may develop a condition called ________ if the mother is not given the drug RhoGAM to prevent her from making antibodies against the Rh antigen.

The white blood cells called ________ release substances such as histamine, which promotes inflammation, and heparin, which is an anticoagulant.

People with which blood type are universal donors?

About how much blood does the average adult body contain?

Which of these WBCs release histamine and heparin and promote inflammation?

Which of the following populations is most affected by sickle cell anemia?

Which of the following is considered a normal WBC count?

Fibrinogen is a plasma protein that ____.