Blood Disorders

Which of the following blood disorders is a cancer of the leukocytes in the bone marrow?

• Leukemia

• Hemophilia

• Sickle Cell Anemia

• Malaria

A hereditary disease in which the blood clots slowly or abnormally. This disease causes prolonged bleeding with even minor cuts and bumps

• Anemia

• Hemophilia

• Thrombus

• Embolus

A chronic blood disorder inherited from both parents. The disease causes red blood cells to form in the abnormal crescent shape. These cells carry less oxygen and break easily, causing anemia

• Thrombus

• Iron Deficiency Anemia

• Leukemia

• Sickle cell anemia

• Hemophilia

____ is a condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor (pale skin) and weakness.

• Thrombus

• Embolus

• Hemophilia

• Leukopenia

• Anemia

Genetic disorder that causes abnormally shaped hemoglobin

• anemia

• phlebotomist

• medical lab tech

• sickle cell anemia

• pulse oximeter

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is cancer of the blood called?

• polycythemia

• hematopoiesis

• anemia

• leukemia

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is produced by your body in response to foreign antigens, such as the wrong type of blood?

• agglutinates

• clotting factors

• phagocytes

• antibodies

A persistent, stationary (not moving) blood clot that stays in one area is called a(n)

• thrombus

• embolus

• leukocytosis

• leukopenia

In the image, you can see a peice of a blood clot traveling in the blood stream that has broken off a stationary blood. What do you call a traveling blood clot?

• a biconcave disc

• a thrombus

• a sickle cell

• an embolus

If an Rh negative mom is carrying a Rh positive baby, what is the name of the disorder that would put her 2nd baby at risk?

• Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn - HBN; aka Erythroblastosis Fetalis

• Leukemia

• Hemophilia

• Sickle cell anemia