Human Anatomy and Physiology

What are the functions of blood?

• Transports oxygen, waste and hormones.

• Regulates body temperature, pH, and fluid volume

• Prevents infection and blood loss

• Provides protection of the cells

Granulocytes have _____-shaped _____ and _____ granules.

• lobe; nuclei; visible

• spherical; kidney; nuclei

• lobe; visible; nuclei

• spherical; nuclei; kidney

Agranulocytes have ____ or ____ -shaped _____ and no _____.

• spherical; kidney; nuclei; granulates

• spherical; nuclei; kidney; granulates

• spherical; granulates; kidney; nuclei

• spherical; kidney; granulates; nuclei

What do Neutrophils do?

• They engulf and destroy foreign bacteria, fungi, and foreign debris

• Destroy parasites and cancer cells, is also responsible for allergic responses

• Release Histamines; Dilates

• Helps fight viruses and more antibodies

What do Eosinophils do?

• Destroy parasites and cancer cells, also responsible for allergic responses

• Releases histamines, dilates

• Helps fight viruses and more antibodies

• clean up damaged cells and can leave the bloodstream

What do Basophils do?

• Release histamines, dilates

• helps fights viruses and make antibodies

• clean up damaged cells, and leaves the bloodstream

• destroys parasites and cancer cells responsible for allergic responses

What do Lymphocytes do?

• Helps fight viruses and make antibodies.

• Release histamines, dilates

• Clean up damaged cells and can leave the bloodstream

• Engulfs and destroys foreign bacteria, fungi and foreign debris

What do monocytes do?

• clean up damaged cells and can leave the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream they are macrophages

• Macrophages attack and engulf viruses and parasites and bacterial infection

• Release histamines, dilates

• Destroys parasites and cancer cells, also responsible for allergic reactions

Thrombocytes are made of ____ ____ of other cells.

• tiny; fragments

• large; fragments

• tiny; waste

• large; waste

What is the function of thrombocytes?

• to engulf and destroy cells

• they are responsible for clotting the blood when a vessel is broken

• to fight and protect against infection

• to prevent histamines