Sickle -cell Disease

What is the function of the plasma?

• Circulate blood cells
• regulate blood pressure
• maintain body temperature
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What is the function of the platelets?

• Stop bleeding by clumping and clotting
• fight infection
• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• circulate blood cells

What is the function of the red blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• fight infection
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

What is the function of the white blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• protect against infection and foreign invaders
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

How is the blood different between someone with and someone without sickle cell disease?

• There are fewer RBC is a normal person
• There are more WBC in a normal person
• The RBC are disc-shaped in a normal person

The cells that appear as small purple dots in the image are

• RBC
• WBC
• platelets

True or False:  A patient can have anemia without having sickle cell disease.

• True
• False

What test is used to diagnose anemia?

• blood smear
• hematocrit
• autopsy
• centrifuge

Calculate the hematocrit level if the solid measured 1 mm, the liquid measured 1 mm, and the total was 2 mm.

• 10%
• 20%
• 50%
• 100%

A low level of RBC is called

• sickle cell disease
• anemia
• infection
• normal