What maintains the osmolarity and acid-base balance of the blood - Answer Electrolytes and proteins
Functions of blood - Answer provide nutrients to cells, provide oxygen for cellular metabolism, removes by-products, carries the cells that protect the body against infection and invading or...
NURS 8022 Module 3 Revision Exam
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What maintains the osmolarity and acid-base balance of the blood - Answer Electrolytes and proteins
Functions of blood - Answer provide nutrients to cells, provide oxygen for cellular metabolism,
removes by-products, carries the cells that protect the body against infection and invading organisms
3 groups of plasma proteins - Answer albumin, clotting factors (mostly fibrinogen), lipoproteins
(triglycerides, cholesterol, fatty acids)
Albumin - Answer function as carrier and control plasma oncotic pressure
serum - Answer plasma without clotting factors
pluripotential cells - Answer in the bone marrow and can differentiate into major blood cells (red,
white, platelets)
Erythrocytes - Answer red blood cells
Leukocytes - Answer white blood cells
Thrombocytes - Answer platelets
Most abundant cells of the body - Answer erythrocytes
Functions of Erythrocytes - Answer responsible for tissue oxygenation, contain hemoglobin and carry
gases and electrolytes, have biconcavity and reversible deformity
Life cycle of erythrocytes - Answer 120 days, spleen replaces
, Normal platelet count - Answer 150,000-400,000
Platelets are formed from - Answer the fragmentation of megakaryocytes
Platelets are produced, stored, and removed by what - Answer produced by the bone marrow, stored
and removed by the spleen
life span of platelets - Answer 5-9 days
function of platelets - Answer essential for blood coagulation and the control of bleeding
lymphoid organs - Answer sites of residence, proliferation, differentiation, and function of lymphocytes
and mononuclear phagocytes, link to the hematologic and immune system
primary lymphoid organs - Answer thymus and bone marrow
secondary lymphoid organs - Answer Spleen, lymph nodes, tonsils, and Peyer Patches of the small
intestine
Hematopoiesis - Answer process of blood cell production in adult bone marrow or in the liver/spleen of
fetus
2 stages of hematopoiesis - Answer Mitosis (proliferation) cells divide
Maturation (differentiation) cells mature
bone marrow - Answer primary site of residence of hematopoietic stem cells, also called myeloid tissue
2 types of bone marrow - Answer red marrow (produce RBCs) and yellow marrow (do not produce
RBCs)
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