BLOOD LS 1 and 2

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Most adults have ______ liters of blood.

4-6

By volume, blood is typically ______% plasma and ______% formed elements.

55 45

If a person's blood sample agglutinates when mixed with anti-A antiserum, but not with anti-B antiserum, they have the blood type ______.

A

What is fibrinogen?

A plasma protein that plays a role in clot formation

Name the erythrocyte-bound antigens used to determine the most common type of blood typing.

A, B

Name the plasma protein that is important in regulating the movement of water between the tissues and the blood.

Albumin

List the three primary types of plasma proteins.

Albumin, fibrinogen, globulin

An individual has blood type B-. Identify the antigens and antibodies present

Anti-A antibody B antigen

Describe what happens when an Rh-negative person is exposed to an Rh-antigen.

Anti-Rh antibodies are formed.

The plasma of a person with A blood type contains anti- _______ antibodies while a person with type B blood type contains anti- _____ antibodies.

B A

Type O blood type

Both anti-A and anti-B antibodies

Indicate which type of plasma protein has a role in immunity and the immune response.

Globulins

Type AB blood type

Neither anti-A or anti-B antibodies

An adult patient is brought into the emergency room of a local hospital. The EMTs report the patient lost about 300 cc (cubic centimeters or milliliters) of blood. Is this life-threatening?

No, most adults have 4-6 liters of blood so a loss of 300 cc would not be life threatening.

Mike has blood type A. He needs blood, however blood type A is not available. The next best choice would be blood type _______.

O

Consider ABO blood types in the United States. The blood type ______ is the most common and type ______ is the least common.

O AB

Type B blood type

Only anti-A antibodies

Type A blood type

Only anti-B antibodies

Blood is comprised of cells and cell fragments, together called "formed elements", suspended in a liquid matrix called blood

Plasma

An individual has blood type AB+. Identify the antigens and antibodies present

Rh antigen A antigen B antigen

An individual has blood type O+. Identify the antigens and antibodies present.

Rh antigen Anti-B antibody Anti-A antibody

What is plasma?

The water, proteins, nutrients, wastes, hormones and gases in blood

True or false: A transfusion reaction occurs when a patient is given an incompatible blood type.

True

True or false: The ABO blood type O-positive is the most common human blood type in the United States.

True

True or false: Type O is the universal donor because type O RBCs lack agglutinogens.

True

Which blood type is considered to be the universal donor?

Type O

Describe when anti-Rh antibodies are produced.

When an Rh-negative person is exposed to the Rh antigen

Clumping of cells is called ______.

agglutination

When an antibody binds to more than one antigen-bearing cell, the result is the clumping or ______ of the cells.

agglutination

Maintaining plasma colloid osmotic pressure is primarily accomplished by the plasma protein called _____

albumin

Patient A has received blood from patient B. Patient A has received a(n) ______.

blood transfusion

Blood consists of a matrix of plasma and cells; blood is a subtype of ______ tissue.

connective

The type of plasma protein that forms the threadlike proteins formed in blood clotting is ______.

fibrinogen

The cells and cell fragments of blood are called ________ ________ the liquid matrix of blood is called plasma.

formed elements

The globulins are important plasma proteins that functions primarily in ______.

immunity

Blood, a type of connective tissue, is composed of ______.

matrix (plasma) and formed elements

The complex mixture of water, proteins, nutrients, electrolytes, wastes, hormones and gases is called

plasma

About 55% of the blood volume consists of ______ and approximately 45%. of the blood volume consists of ______ elements.

plasma formed

The most abundant type of molecule in blood plasma is ______.

protein

An individual with type A blood is given type B blood. A transfusion reaction will occur between the ______.

recipients antibodies and the antigens of the donated blood

Plasma proteins are _____ in the blood.

the most abundant suspended substances

Blood type is determined by ______.

the presence or absence of A and B antigens on the surface of RBCs

The type O blood type is considered the universal donor because ______.

type O RBCs lack agglutinogens


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