Carry oxygen and nutrients throughout the body

An enlargement of the spleen

Person trained to draw blood from a patient.

Red blood cells appear faded (lose their color)

An inherited disorder that interferes with the blood’s ability to carry oxygen.

If both parents are carriers for Cooley's anemia, what are the chances their children will have Cooley's anemia?

Blood is what type of tissue?

How many main components are there to blood?

What are the two main components of blood?

The shape of normal blood cells.

Red blood cells

White blood cells

Platelets

Made from a protein called hemoglobin (Hb) which contains iron used to transport oxygen.

Normal red blood cells do not contain a(n) . . .

-formation of blood cells

- occurs in the bone marrow

- an error in the genetic code can cause the protein to be abnormally shaped

A hormone that increases production of RBC’s.

Immune function (several types)

Attacks bacteria through phagocytosis

Attacks parasites and can be present in response to allergies

Active in injury sites. Releases heparin to prevent clotting & histamines to increase inflammation

Initiates immune response to viruses

Involved in attacking viruses & abnormal tissues

Initiates clotting process

In 1667, this physician was the first to complete an animal to human blood transfusion.

1901 - Austrian _____ discovered human blood groups, which we now call blood types.

Blood cells have markers on their surface called

In addition to the ABO groups, blood type can have another protein on the surface.  If blood cells have this factor, they are described as positive. Cells without this surface protein are described as negative.

Antigens generate antibodies  (antigen is short for ___-___).

___ are proteins that circulate in  the blood and can attach to foreign invaders in the blood.

When antibodies attach to blood cells, the blood cells clump together, this is known as ___.

Why is type O blood considered the universal donor?

Antigens produced by the fetus can generate antibodies in the mother. 

What is the rarest blood type?

What are the possible genotypes for type A blood?

The liquid portion of blood is _____ water.

Plasma proteins - albumins

plasma proteins - globulins

plasma proteins - fibrinogen

Involves the coagulation and clotting of the blood to seal the site of damage.

Key events in hemostasis.

An enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood by converting fibrinogen to fibrin.

The thickening of blood to form a clot  (hematoma).

blood clot (abnormal)

When the clot moves to another place.

When a blood clot goes to the lungs.

Bleeder's disease

The average adult has how many pints of blood in their body.

The ratio of the volume of red blood cells to the total volume of blood.

A type of blood cancer.

___ = a cancer that progresses quickly

___ refers to its effect on cells that turn into healthy white blood cells

White blood cells that have a granular cytoplasm.

White blood cells that lack a granular cytoplasm.

Granulocytes

Agranulocytes

White bloods cells are ___ than red blood cells.

60% of WBC.

30% of WBC

Basophil

Delivers blood to all body cells and carries away waste.

Eliminates carbon dioxide and oxygenates blood (lung pathway).

Located in the ___, between the 2nd rib and the 5th intercostal space.

The distal end of the heart is called . . .

Encloses the heart (like a bag) and has 2 layers.

Inner layer of the fibrous pericardium.

Outer layer of the fibrous pericardium.

Contains fluid reducing friction around the heart.

Outer layer of the heart wall.

Middle layer of the heart wall.

Thin inner lining, within chambers of the heart.

Thin upper chambers that receive blood returning to the heart through veins.

Thick, muscular lower chambers.  Pumps blood out of the heart through arteries (away).

Separates the right and left sides of the heart.

The bicuspid or mitral valve.

The tricuspid valve.

Valve between the left ventricle and aorta.

Valve between the right ventricle and pulmonary artery.

The cusps (flaps) of the bicuspid and tricuspid valves are anchored to the ventricle walls by fibrous “cords” called . . .

One complete heartbeat.

Contraction of the heart chamber.

Relaxation of a heart chamber.

Blood pressure cuffs measure the ___  in the vessels. 

During systole, this force is the greatest, on a blood pressure reading, this is the ___ .

Diastole is the smaller number, when the ___ .

Average human blood pressure.

Instrument to listen and measure heart sounds.

Places where arteries come close to your skin--on your body.

Pulse point located on your neck.

Pulse point located on your wrist.

Pulse point located on your arm.

A recording of the electrical events (changes) during a cardiac cycle.

Fast heart rate

slow heart rate

irregular heart rate

Heart rate is controlled by the ___ within the medulla oblongata.

Strong elastic vessels which carry blood moving away from the heart.   Smallest ones are arterioles which connect to capillaries.

Thinner, less muscular vessels carrying blood toward the heart.

Smallest veins are called ___ which connect to capillaries and contain valves.

Allows exchange of materials (oxygen, nutrients) between blood and tissues.

Circular, valve-like muscle at arteriole-capillary junction.

Narrowing of the vessel.

Expanding of the vessel.

Largest artery.

Splits into left and right, both lead to the lungs.

Returns blood from the lungs to the heart.

Returns blood from the head and body to the heart.

Supply's blood to the heart itself.

branches into the:

Right Subclavian ( supplies blood to the arms)

Left Subclavian Artery – supplies blood to the left arms      

Right Common Carotid (bicarotid) 

The device shocks the heart and allows it to re-establish its normal; can also be used to start a heart that has stopped.

CPR

Unusual sound heard during a heartbeat Sometimes they sound like a whooshing or swishing noise.

An obstruction to the coronary artery, commonly called a “heart attack”

High blood pressure, the force within the arteries is too high.

Is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel.

Blood flow to the brain is cut off.

Valve or aorta is narrowed, limiting blood flow.

A hole exists between the two sides of the heart (septum).

Deposits of fatty materials such as cholesterol form a “plaque” in the arteries which reduces blood flow.