Exam 20: Blood

Whether a blood clot event begins in or out of the circulatory system determines whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic.

What is the major ingredient constituting plasma?

Which of the following is an anticoagulant?

A person with a parasitic worm infection might have an increase in the number of eosinophils in the blood.

Match each substance involved in blood clot formation with its description or function. -ion that is necessary in two steps of the clotting process

Which of the following cell types can carry oxygen?

Name and give the function of the three blood-formed elements.

Blood constitutes about 4% of total body weight.

The enzyme carbonic anhydrase allows carbon dioxide to join with the heme portion of the red blood cell.

Considering only the blood antigens A,B,AB,and O,which blood type is considered the universal donor? Explain the physiological basis of its being referred to as the universal donor.

Calcium is used in the clotting process during:

A person with a condition such as appendicitis would have an increase in both neutrophils and in the total number of white blood cells.

Which white blood cell contains granules filled with histamine?

Describe the antigens and antibodies that would be found on the red blood cell and in the plasma for all four of the ABO blood groups.

In the development of the red blood cell,polychromic erythroblasts are more mature cells than basophilic erythroblasts.

Heme is broken down into what pigment,which is excreted in bile?

Match each substance involved in blood clot formation with its description or function. -the soluble protein that is acted on to form the insoluble protein that actually forms the clot

To maintain the homeostatic level of red blood cell production,the body must supply the bone marrow with recycled iron,amino acids,and bilirubin.

In stage II of clot formation,prothrombin is converted to:

Of the three proteins found in plasma,globulins are present in the smallest percentage.