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Haematology Flashcards

1
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4 components of blood

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Plasma
Platelets
Red blood cells
White blood cells

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2
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How many litres of blood in the body?

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4-5 litres

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3
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What percentage of blood is plasma?

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55%

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4
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What is blood plasma made up of?

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Water, gases, nutrients, vitamins, hormones, proteins, electrolytes , wastes

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5
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Haematopoiesis

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The production of all types of blood cells including formation, development and differentiation

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6
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What shape are RBCs?

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Concave

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7
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Where are RBCs produced?

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Bone marrow

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8
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What break down old RBCs?

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Macrophages

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9
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What break down haemaglobin

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Hepatocytes

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10
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Where is bile secreted?

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Into the small intestine

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11
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What secretes nutrients from blood?

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Small intestine

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12
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Where is nutrients in small intestine moved to?

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Bone marrow to produce new RBCs

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13
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What substance is formed by breakdown of haemaglobin?

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Bilirubin

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14
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Where is bilirubin secreted?

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Into bile

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15
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What is heme?

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An iron containing compound which forms the non protein part of haemaglobin

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16
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Another term for red blood cell

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Erythrocyte

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17
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Two groups of white blood cells?

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Granulocytes

Agranulocytes

18
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What two white blood cells are agranulocytes?

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Monocytes

Lymphocytes

19
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What type of white blood cells are granulocytes?

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Neutrophils
Eosinophils
Basophils

20
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Function of white blood cells?

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Protect body against infection disease and foreign invaders

21
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Function of platelets

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Stop bleeding by clumping and clotting blood vessel injuries

22
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List three main proteins in blood

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Albumins
Globulin
Fibrinogen

23
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Three types of globulins

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Alpha globulins- transports lipids
Beta globulins- transports lipids
Gamma globulins - antibodies

24
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Main gases in blood

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O2

CO2

25
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What are the three steps to haemostasis after blood vessel injury?

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Blood vessel spasm
Platelet plug formation
Blood coagulation

26
Q

What do platelets release in haemostasis?

A

Seratonin to constrict smooth muscle in blood vessel walls

27
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How do platelets form a plug?

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They stick to each other and to the broken vessel and are exposed to collagen. This helps control blood loss

28
Q

What releases thrombin after tissue damage?

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Prothrombin (activated by prothrombin activator)

29
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What releases fibrin after tissue damage?

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Fibrinogen (activated by thrombin)

30
Q

Someone with type A blood has what antigens and what antibodies?

A

Anti B antibody

A antigens

31
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Type B blood has what antibodies and what antigens?

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Anti- A antibody

Antigen B

32
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Type AB blood has what antibodies and what antigen?

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No antibodies

A and B antigens

33
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Type O blood has what antibodies and what antigen?

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A and B antibodies

No antigens

34
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Which blood group is the universal recipient?

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AB as if contains no antibodies

35
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What is the third antigen that RBCs can carry?

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RHD antigen

36
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If you have RHD antigen in you RBCs are you rhesus negative or rhesus positive?

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Rhesus positive

37
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What is the name of the antibody against RHD? (Sometimes Present in those without the RHD antigen on their RBCs)?

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Anti- D antigen

38
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What can happen if a fetus with RH positive blood’s blood enters its RH negative mothers blood stream during childbirth?

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The mother produces anti- D antibodies against RH-positive blood cells between pregnancies. Therefore in the next pregnancy, maternal antibodies attack fetal red blood cells causing a miscarriage.

39
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What is a thrombus?

A

A blood clot

40
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What is an embolus

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Anything that travels through a blood vessel until it reaches a vessel too small to let it pass, then restricts blood flow.

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