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| made of Water, Electrolytes and plasma proteins, and serum |
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Platelets or Thrombocytes Erythorocytes or Red Blood Cells Leuocytes or White Blood Cells |
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| Plasma minus clotting factors; clear yellowish fluid that forms over clot or scab |
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Average blood volume of a man Average blood volume of a woman |
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Biconcave disc 7 micrometers 33% hemoglobin no nucleus |
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| structure of a red blood cell |
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| method for measurement of the number of REd Blood Cells |
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| Rubriblasts --> Reticulocytes --> Erythrocytes |
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| stages of red blood cell life |
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| Reticuloendothelial Cells |
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| Remove RBCs from the blood stream when they become older |
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| hormone that stimulates new RBCs |
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| Iron, Vitamin B-12, Folic Acid |
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| nutrients required for RBC synthesis in the marrow |
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| diminished concentration of RBCs |
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| poorly formed cells with fagile membranes |
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| inability of body to make intrinsic factor in the stomach which protects Vitamin B-12 from digestion prior to its absorption in the small intestine |
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| Neutrophils, Eosinophils, Basophils |
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| amoeba-like movement-able to move through minute openings to all parts of the body |
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| granular, phagocytosis and release of lysoayme, elevated count sugests bacterial infection |
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| granular, elevated numbers suggest allergy or paraite, large number in respiratory passages in asthmatics |
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| granular, similar to mast cells, release heparin, histamine and serotonin, elevation suggests allergy or parasite |
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| agranular, can become macrophages, elevated numbers indicate longer term or chronic infections |
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| agranular, elevated number usually indicates bacterial infection |
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| increase in total number of WBCs |
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| Unwanted clot in an unopened vessel |
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| Blackage of vessel do to an embolus |
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| isoantigens or agglutinogens |
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| antigens on the surface of red blood cells |
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| circulation between right ventricle and left atriu, responsible for elimination of co2 and acquisition of O2 |
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| supply blood to the majority of the body's tissues |
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| further subdivision of the lower systemic circulation |
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| part of circulatory system that is considered to be taing blood away from the heart and transporting oxygenated blood |
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| part of circulatory system that is taking blood back toward the heart and transporting deoxygenated blood |
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| layers of arteries and veins |
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| inner coat, a lining of endothelium that is in contact with blood of lumen |
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| middle coat, usually thickest in arteries |
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| Composed of mostly loose CT will have some elastic and collagenous fivers, outer layer |
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| external elastic membrane |
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| in some arteries, this spearates the tunica media from the tunica externa |
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| when the mooth muscles of artery walls contact, narrowing the width of the lumen |
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| muscles in arteries relax and results in an increase in diameter of the lumen |
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| when there exists more than one route of blood supply to an area |
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| small arteries which will eventually flow into the capillaries |
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| microscopic blood vesses between arterioles and venules |
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| a ring of smooth muscle at the opening of a capillary |
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| blood vessels between capillaries and veins |
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| when the walls of vein lose their elasticity and become stretched - often the result of a damaged valve |
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| varicosities in the veins and in the walls of the anal canal |
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| sublavian --> axillary --> Brachial --> Ulnar --> Radial |
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| blood supply to the upper extremity |
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| Deep Palmar Arch and Superficial Palmar Arch |
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| anastomosis of the Radial and Ulnar arteries in the hand |
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| arise from Palmer Arches and supply the digits |
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| Begins in the veins of the hand and courses superiorly on the radial side of the forearm and continues superiorly on the lateral side of the arm |
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| begins on the ulnar side of the hand |
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| from brachiocephalic on the right, directly from the aortic arch on left. Braches into Internal and External branches at the carotid sinus |
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| supplies external aspects of the head and neck |
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| arises from subclavian, passes through transverse foramina of cervical vertebrae and the foramen magnum to the brain |
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| formed by union of left and right vertebral arteries |
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| circular anastomosis of four areries that supply the brain, surrounts hypothalmus, and pituitary gland |
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