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Average adult blood volume
5 liters
What leaves the heart and is bright red (except for blood going to lungs)
Arterial blood
What blood is entering the heart and is dark red (except for the deoxygenated blood coming from lungs
Venous blood
45% of blood is made up of
Red blood cells
55% and the largest part is made of
Water,ions, and organic molecules, vitamins, gases (o2 and co2)
The fluid part of blood is 3 things
Water,
Dissolved solutes
Proteins
What is the main protein found in the plasma, what are others
Albumin.
Globulins
Fibrinogen
What forms clots in wounds
Conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin.
After clots are made what is occurring during healing
Fibrinolysis
Official word ofor red blood cells
Erythrocytes
What cells carries oxygen and contains about 280 million hemoglobin (proteins)
Red blood cells
When you have abnormally low RBC count or low hemoglobin content within RBC (think of when you get pricked at blood drive)
Anemia
Each ———- molecule can carry ——- O2 molecules
Hemoglobin
4
Relative volume of plasma
5%
What is contained in the blood
Water
gas
nutrients
small amt proteins
What is the key blood protein
Albumin
What is the relative volume % of red blood cells
45%
What is the MAIN key role of red blood cells
Carry a TON of O2 via hemoglobin