Vocabulary for blood

• The three most important antigens are ____, ____, ____

• A person’s RBCs may carry an A antigen, B antigen, AB antigen or no antigen at all

Clumping of red blood cells following transfusion

• (Absent of or without A)

• protein found in virtually all animal tissue and fluid; most abundant plasma protein; contributes to osmotic pressure of blood, acts to keep H2O in bloodstream

• reduced oxygen carrying capacity of blood 

• Caused by: 1) Decrease in RBC Number 2) Inadequate (iron in the blood) hemoglobin in RBCs; 3) abnormal hemoglobin in RBCs

• Injured tissue releases thromboplastin (plays important role in clotting)

• Thromboplastin interacts with PF3 to form activator

• Prothrombin actiator converts prothrombin, which is present in plasma, to thrombin

• Injured tissue releases thromboplastin (plays important role in clotting)

• Thromboplastin interacts with PF3 to form activator

• Prothrombin actiator converts prothrombin, which is present in plasma, to thrombin

• if it dislodges (breaks free

• (it can go everywhere such as brain, heart, etc..)

• have blue-red nucleus that resembles an old-fashioned telephone receiver & have large brick-red cytoplasmic granules (worm eats everything from the inside, taips worms)

• Numbers increase rapidly during allergies and infections by parasitic worms (i.e.. Flat worms, tapeworms)

(aka: red blood cells)

• # 1 function: Cherry Oxygen in blood to all cells

• Anuclete: No nucleus (it can’t reproduces)

• Have very few organelles

a tough protein substance that is arranged in long fibrous chains