Cardiovascular System: Blood

Bill wants to determine his blood type, so he takes a few drops of blood from a puncture wound in his finger and mixes it with various antisera. His blood cells agglutinate when mixed with the anti-A sera but not with the anti-B or anti-D sera. This means

Bill could donate blood to an individual with type AB blood

Anucleated and biconcave

RBC

EPO is released when

oxygen levels in the blood decrease

In adults, the stem cells responsible for the production of red and white blood cells originate primarily in the

red bone marrow

The average life span of a red blood cell is

120 days

Blood is approximately ________ plasma by volume.

46-63

If a person were to have the blood type A+, which of the following blood types could they receieve in a transfusion?

A+/-,O +/-

________ is a condition in which the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood is reduced.

Anemia

Red blood cell production is stimulated directly by

EPO

_______ are the most abundant cell population of the formed elemetns of blood

Erthyocytes

The pecentage of whole blood volume occupied by formed elements is termed (the)

Hematocrit

As blood flows through peripheral tissues, what occurs regarding the hemoglobin molecules of RBCs?

Hemoglobin binds to Carbon Dioxide and releases it bound oxygen

If my father has O blood and my mother is B, what are my potential blood types?

O, B

Anucleated and a cell fragment

Platelet

The process of blood clotting is an example of which function of blood?

Restricitng fluid losses at injjuruy sites

After 24 hours in circulation the ________ complete their maturation and become indistinguishable from other mature RBC's

Reticulocytes

The following is a list of the steps involved in the process of hemostasis:

Vascular phase, platelet plug, coagulation

Nucleated and spheriod

WBC

Plama proteins that are necessart for blood to maintain osmotic pressure are

albumins

Platelets

are a major component of the vascular clotting system

the fucntion of hemoglobin is to

bind and transport oxygen and carbon dioxide

The main event of the coagulation phase is

conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin

Platelets are

cytoplasmic fragments

During their formation, RBCs

eject their nucleus and most of their organelles

The primary function of white blood cells is to

help defend the body against infectious organisms

Playing a critical role in RBC formation, a woman's iron reserve is _____ percent of a typical man's iron reserve

less than

Which organ, a primary source of plasma proteins, synthesizes more than 90 percent of such proteins?

liver

the cheif differenece between plasma and serum involves the

presence/absence of clotting proteins

A person's blood type is determined by

the presence or absence of specific surface

Fresh whole blood is usually collected through a procedure called

venipuncture

________ is the characteristic of WBCs that allow them to enter durrounding tissue by squeezing between adjacent epithelial cells in the capillary wall

Diapedesis

The term ________ refers to the combination of plasma and the formed elements together.

Whole Blood

Type AB blood contains

antigens A and B