Exam 11: Blood

Folic acid is necessary for RBC production for the synthesis of:

The pH of the blood will increase if the amount of carbon dioxide it carries ____________________.

When old RBCs are destroyed,their iron may be stored in the ____________________.

The plasma protein that pulls tissue fluid into capillaries is ____________________.

The term leukocytosis means:

In RBC formation,iron and protein are necessary nutrients because they become part of ____________________.

Of the WBCs,the lymphocytes ____,and the monocytes ____.

Which of the following statements are true of chemical blood clotting? (Read carefully and select all of the correct statements.)

A person with type O positive blood receives a transfusion of type B negative blood.What will happen?

A type AB person has ____________________ on the RBCs and ____________________ in the plasma.

Erythropoietin increases the production of:

An abnormal clot that forms within a vessel is called a(n)____________________.

The kind of WBC that releases histamine during inflammation is the ____________________.

The term for a high WBC count is ____________________.

The laboratory test for hemoglobin is a measurement in ____,and a normal range is ____.

A hematocrit is a laboratory test that is a measure of:

The precursor cell for all of the kinds of blood cells is the ____________________.

The kind of WBC that detoxifies foreign proteins is the:

The term for a low platelet count is ____________________.

The process of blood clotting may be described as a: