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What are the three primary functions of blood?
What is the average temperature of blood?
What is the average pH of blood? Is it better for blood to be more acidic or alkaline? Also, how can you change your blood to become more acidic/alkaline?
What is the average volume of blood in the human body?
List the components of blood and their approximate composition.
What is blood plasma made of?
Describe the three formed elements in terms of living cells vs. cell fragments.
Describe hydrostatic vs osmotic pressure.
What is Hematocrit?
Why do men have a higher Hematocrit than women?
Why do women occasionally experience lower levels of Hematocrit during childbearing years?
What is hemopoeisis?
What is anemia? What are the causes?
Describe Megaloblastic anemia.
Describe Pernicious anemia.
Describe Hemorrhagic anemia.
Describe Hemolytic anemia.
Describe Aplastic anemia.
What are the two inherited types of anemia?
Describe sickle cell anemia.
Describe Thalassemia.
Describe Polycythemia.
Describe hemopoiesis.
Describe erythrocytes.
_________ increases construction of erythrocytes. Why?
Describe the destruction of erythrocytes.
What does a red blood cell look like and what does it consist of?
Remember that red blood cells are in charge of O2 transportation, CO2 transportation, and BP regulation. Briefly summarize these three functions.
Identify the antigen/antibodies on each blood type.
Describe positive and negative Rh.
What are the two types of blood transfusions?
What happens during the transfusion if the blood types are incompatible?
Briefly describe leukocytes and their two classifications.
Briefly describe neutrophils.
Briefly describe eosinophils.
Briefly describe basophils.
Briefly describe lymphocytes.
Briefly describe monocytes.
Describe fixed vs. wandering macrophages.
What is the ratio of RBCs to WBCs?
What is leukocytosis?
What is the average number of WBCs per microliter of blood?
What is leukopenia?
Describe the life span of a WBC.
Briefly describe chemotaxis.
Briefly describe emigration.
Briefly describe thrombocytes.
Briefly describe hemostasis.
List the steps of the hemostasis sequence.
What is coagulation?
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Pathway of hemostasis
What is the common pathway of hemostasis?
Briefly describe clot retraction.
What is hemostatic control?
What causes the endothelial lining in blood vessels to become roughened and why can this be negative?
What is thrombosis?
What is an embolism?