Exam 9: Blood, Lymphatic, and Immune Systems

Cells that are key in the immune response are:

A group of inherited disorders in which the anemia is the result of a decrease in the synthesis of hemoglobin is:

Individuals with type O blood can donate to types A, B, AB, and O.

A 68-kg patient has approximately ____ L of blood in his body.

The universal donor is a person with type AB blood.

Specific immunity can be natural or acquired.

Insufficient blood levels of cobalamin, essential for red blood cell maturation, is called:

Resection of the spleen is:

There are ____ of WBCs.

Hypersensitivity caused by activated T cells is called:

Coagulation is the process of clotting.

Substances that provoke an immune reaction because they are perceived as foreign are termed antigens.

Anemia caused by the body's destruction of its own RBCs by serum antibodies is _____ anemia.

A person with type A blood can donate blood to individuals with type A blood and type ____ blood.

An individual with which type of blood is considered a universal donor?

Specific immunity is dependent on:

A test for infectious mononucleosis is:

Leukocytes are clotting cells.

The combining form for plasma minus the clotting proteins is:

The universal recipient is an individual with type AB blood.