Exam 27: The Blood

In ________ anemia, red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be made.

Beth is a 16-year-old patient whose mother has brought her to the office because Beth is always complaining of being tired. Beth tells you that she has frequent headaches, and her feet are always cold. Her blood pressure is 100/64, and her heart rate is 84. When you ask if her menstrual periods are normal, she says she bleeds heavily for 7 or 8 days each month. Which of the following conditions might you suspect?

The inability to absorb vitamin B₁₂ is called ________ anemia.

Blood clots are formed from ____, which sticks to the damaged area of the blood vessel, creating a mesh that entraps blood cells and platelets.

Jose is an 11-year-old child who was involved in a serious automobile accident. He will live, but he has lost a lot of blood. The emergency physician tells his mother that he will need a blood transfusion. The mother becomes frantic, saying that Jose has a "rare" blood type and she doesn't know if they will be able to match it. When you ask what type of blood he has, she answers "He has type AB blood." What is your best response to Jose's mother?

You would expect a patient with AIDS to have ____.

When there are not enough red blood cells or hemoglobin in the blood to carry an adequate amount of oxygen to the body's cells, the person has the condition called ________.

An embolus is dangerous because it can eventually become lodged in a small artery in the ____.

A woman of childbearing age should know her Rh type because if she is Rh-negative and conceives a child that is Rh-positive, ____.

Hemoglobin that is not carrying oxygen is called deoxyhemoglobin, and because it may now carry carbon dioxide, it is also called ________.

Biliverdin is converted to ________, which the liver uses to make bile needed for the digestion of fats.

Platelets come from cells called ________ in red bone marrow.

When a part of a thrombus breaks off, it is referred to as ____.

Because lipids are not water-soluble and because plasma is mostly water, lipids must combine with molecules called ________ to be transported.