Exam 6: Hematology and Immunology /Blood and the Lymphatic System

________ are molecules in the plasma that carry a positive or negative electrical charge.

Lymph in the lymphatic system follows a continuous,circular path like that of blood in the circulatory system.

Lymphatic capillaries have large openings in their walls that allow microorganisms or cancerous cells to enter.

A unit of donated blood is tested with the MonoSpot test to detect the AIDS virus.

Alicia Jencks has infectious mononucleosis.Her physician palpated her abdomen to determine if she had enlargement of the spleen.The medical name for enlargement of the spleen is ________.

A patient with lymphoma or leukemia would receive which cancer treatment?

The suffix -rrhage,as seen in hemorrhage,means ________.

Hematopoiesis occurs in the red bone marrow of the long or flat bones.

The patient came to the clinic with a sore throat and a fever.If he has a bacterial infection,which cells in his blood would engulf and destroy the bacteria?

All of the different cells that engulf and destroy bacteria are known as ________.

Because of their irregular shape,sickle cells can be categorized as ________.

Diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes mellitus are classified as ________ disorders because the body makes antibodies against its own tissues.

The process by which all of the formed elements in the blood are produced is known as ________.

Hemorrhage is the loss of a small amount of blood over time.

When you build a medical word that means "condition of unequal cells," you would use all of the following word parts EXCEPT ________.

The combining form ferr/o- means ________.

When the body experiences a significant blood loss,the ________ produces the hormone erythropoietin to stimulate the production of red blood cells.

The body's immune response can detect and destroy which of the following?

The suffix -blast,as seen in erythroblast,means ________.

The primary accented syllable in the word eosinophil (ee-oh-sin-oh-phil)is ________.