Module 5 Quiz: Blood
________ and ___________ play prominent roles in defending the body against specific pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms) and are involved in specific immunity.
B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes
-lytic is
a suffix meaning pertaining to distruction
-osis is a suffix meaning
abnormal condition
The suffix -cytosis means
abnormal condition or cells, increase in cells
Which of the following describes a neutrophil?
abundant, granular, especially effective against bacteria
Which of the formed elements arise from myeloid stem cells?
all the formed elements
T and B lymphocytes ________
are involved with specific immune function
dors/o as in dorsal refers to the _____
back
A patient has been experiencing severe, persistent allergy symptoms that are reduced when she takes an antihistamine. Before the treatment, this patient was likely to have had increased activity of which leukocyte?
basophils
pros- and ante- are both prefixes meaning
before; forward
hem/o and hemat/o are both combining forms meaning
blood
Knowing the meaning of -emia would lead you to believe that leukemia was a kind of
blood condition
Which of the following statements about blood is true?
blood is slightly more viscous than water
cyt/o is a combining form meaning
cell
thromb/o is a combining form meaning
clot
Knowing the meaning of thromb/o would lead you to believe thrombosis has something to do with
clotting
myel/o is a
combining form meaning bone marrow
poikil/o is a ____ meaning ___
combining form, varied or irregular
eosin/o and erythr/o are both
combining forms meaning red
The specific functions of blood include
defense, distribution of heat, and maintenance of homeostasis.
The suffix -penia means
deficiency
Blood's primary function is to
deliver oxygen and nutrients to and remove wastes from body cells
-oid is a suffix meaning
deriving or originating from
phag/o is a combining form meaning
eat, swallow
The process by which leukocytes squeeze through adjacent cells in a blood vessel wall is called ________
emigration
Knowing the suffix -penia would tell you that leukopenia is a condition where too ____ leukocytes are produced
few
-poiesis means
formation
-gen is a suffix meaning
giving rise to, producing
granul/o as in granulocyte means
granules
Erythrocytes are produced _________ and at the end of their life cycle, destroyed by __________ and their components are recycled.
in the bone marrow, macrophages
vicer/o means
internal organs
sider/o means
iron
Albumin
is the most abundant plasma protein
Knowing the meaning of kary/o would tell you that megakaryocyte has something to do with a
nucleus
kary/o and nucle/o both mean
nucleus
The redness of blood's color varies depending on
oxygen saturation
Following centrifuge, the order of the blood elements from lightest to heaviest are
plasma, buffy coat (or formed elements) and hemocrit (or erythrocytes)
ec- and ecto- are
prefixes meaning out, outside
-globin is a suffix meaning
protein
-apheresis is a suffix meaning
removal, a carrying away
hist/o is a
root meaning tissue
Macro, micro, poikil, and spher all word parts referring to
size and shape
phag/o and -phage both mean to eat or swallow. In the word macrophage it is a
suffix
-philia is a
suffix meaning attraction for (an increase in cell numbers)
-phoresis is a
suffix meaning carrying, transmission
-blast is a
suffix meaning immature cell, embryonic
ventr/o refers to which side of the body?
the belly
cytology means
the study of cells
The primary function of leukocytes are
to protect the body from disease
anis/o is a combining form meaning
unequal
The plasma subcomponent which makes up the largest percentage is
water
Knowing the meaning of leuk/o tells us that leukemia is a disease of which blood cells?
white
