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ability of White Blood Cell's to locate areas of tissue damage and infection in the body by responding to certain chmeicals that diffuse from the damaged cells |
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testing for agglutination of donor's RBCs |
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most abundant plasma protein; found in all animal tissue; contributes to osmotic pressure of blood to keep water in the blood |
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decreased number of platelets |
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% of RBCs to total blood volume |
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a fixed or attached clot that develops and persists in an unbroken blood vessel |
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the oxygen-transporting pigment of erythrocytes |
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oxygen carrying red blood cells |
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infection and allergy fighting white blood cells |
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the fibrous insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood |
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the fibrous insoluble protein formed during the clotting of blood |
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the presence of an abnormally large number of erythrocytes in the blood |
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a free floating obstuctor of blood vessel by blood clot, air bubble, or fatty mass floating in the blood |
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stem cells that give rise to all the formed elements of blood through secondary stem cells the lymphoid and myeloid |
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decrease in number of white blood cells |
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increase in the number of white blood cells |
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an inherited clotting defect caused by absence of blood-clotting factor |
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AB can receive A, B, AB, O so it is called the |
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O cant receive A and B, only O, so it is called the |
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Rh- mother's antibodies attack her RH+ unborn baby's blood |
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fetal liver, spleen and later bone marrow to make RBC's |
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lymphocytes that produces antibodies |
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an accumulation of bile pigments in the blood producing a yellow color of skin and scalera |
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blockage of the coronary arteries of the heart with fixed obstruction of fat |
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any substance, including toxins, foreign proteins, or bacteria; that when introduced into the body, is recognized as foreign and activates the immune system |
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the passage of blood cells through intact vessel walls into the tissues |
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