Exam 10: The Blood System

Gamma globulins are important to the function of the __________ system.

Aspirin is a well-known __________.

What class of medications would be prescribed to decrease clotting?

Erythroblastosis fetalis is also known as RH factor __________.

Identify the combining form phag/o with its closest definition.

What blood type would a health care provider explain to a patient's family as being universal donor?

The health care provider explains to the patient that coagulation is the changing of a semisolid or gel into a __________.

Identify the combining form eosin/o with its closest definition.

The cells in blood that destroy foreign substances are __________.

Identify the combining form agglutin/o with its closest definition.

The destruction of red blood cells is __________.

The solid part of the blood contains __________ cells.

The main group of plasma proteins that helps regulate water movement between blood and tissue is ____.

With this disease, there is an abnormal increase in the red blood cells.

The patient has sustained kidney damage. The nurse identifies that which hormone may be affected that will affect the production of red blood cells?

About one-half of leukocytes are __________.

To assess a protein in the red blood cells that aids in the transport of oxygen to the cells of the body, the nurse would review which laboratory value?

A hemorrhagic disorder in which there is a greater tendency to bleed due to the lack of a clotting factor called factor VIII is a disorder called ______.

The patient has been diagnosed with a major disease involving white blood cells or __________.

A process that uses centrifuging to take a patient's blood and return only the red blood cells is known as __________.