Blood Vocabulary

Small cell fragments that are derived from certain cells in the bone marrow.

• platelets
• plasma
• albumins
• globulins

Oxygen-transporting protein in red blood cells that gives the cells their characteristic red color.

• thrombin
• hematocrit
• hemoglobin
• hemostasis

A condition in which the blood's ability to carry oxygen is reduced because of a shortage of normal hemoglobin or too few red blood cells.

• leukemia
• fibrin
• anemia
• albumins

leukocyte

• white blood cells (WBCs)
• red blood cells (RBCs)
• blood poisoning
• stem cells

erythrocytes → Blood cell that transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs

• True
• False

The extracellular matrix of blood is called

• plasma
• erythrocytes
• buffy coat
• lympocytes

Antibodies binding to antigens on RBCs causes a clumping known as __________

• agglutination
• coagulation
• clotting cascade
• hemolysis

This term means "blood cell formation" and where does it occur after birth?

• Hemopoiesis; Liver
• Blastocyst; Red bone marrow
• Erythrocyte; yolk sac
• Hemopoiesis; Red bone marrow 

A persistent clot in an unbroken blood vessel is known as _______

• a thrombus
• an embolus
• hemophilia
• leukopenia

plasma protein important for blood clotting

• fibrinogen
• albumin
• globulin
• heoglobin