Week 4-Chapter 13 Flashcards by Cynthia Rivas

Abscess

Pus filled cavity

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Albumin

Plasma protein. Maintains osmotic pressure

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Anemia

Blood disorder characterized by reduction in red blood cells or hemoglobin

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Antibody

Substance produced by the body that inactivates a specific foreign substance that has entered the body, formed as a reaction to an antigen

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Agranulocytes

Nongranular white blood cells, known as agranular leukocytes

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Anticoagulants

Chemical substance that prevents or slows blood clotting

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Antigen

Substance stimulating formation of antibodies against itself

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Antithromboplastin

Chemical substance that inhibits the clot-accelerating effect of thromboplastins

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Antiprothrombin

Chemical substance, such as heparin, that directly or indirectly reduces or slows the action of prothrombin

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B lymphocytes

White blood cells synthesized in the bone marrow, help form antibodies

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Basophils

Leukocyte cells that are activated during an allergic reaction or inflammation, produce histamine and heparin

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Aplastic anemia

Anemia caused by a suppression of the bone marrow

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Carbon monoxide poisoning (CO)

A condition in which an odorless gas combines rapidly with hemoglobin and crowds out oxygen

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Clotting time

The time it takes for blood to clot

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Cooleys anemia

Anemia caused by defect in hemoglobin formation, also known as thalassemia major

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Coagulation

Process of blood clotting

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Diapedesis

Passage of blood cells through uncultured vessel wall into tissues

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Eosinophils

White blood cells that increase in great numbers in allergic conditions, phagocytize the remains of the antibody-antigen reaction

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Embolism

Obstruction of a blood vessel by a circulating blood clot, fat globule, air bubble, or piece of tissue

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Erythropoiesis

Formation or development of red blood cells

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Erythrocytes

Red blood cells

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Erythroblastosis fetalis

Hemolytic disease of the newborn

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Erythropoietin

Hormone produced by the kidney to accelerate the production of red blood cells

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Fibrin

An insoluble protein necessary for the clotting of blood

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Granulocytes

Granular white blood cells synthesized

Fibrinogen

A protein that is converted into fibrin by the action of thrombin

Gamma globulin

Fractionated part of globulin to treat infectious diseases

Globulin

Plasma protein made in liver, helps in synthesis of antibodies

Hematocrit

Blood test that measures the percentage of the volume of whole blood that is made up of red blood cells, which depend on the number and size of the red blood cells

Hematopoisis

Formation of blood cells through uncultured

Hemostasis

Process of controlling or stopping bleeding

Hemophilia

Sex linked, hereditary bleeding disorder occurring mostly in males but transmitted by females,

Hemoglobin

Oxygen carrying pigment of the blood

Hemolysis

The bursting of red blood cells synthesized

Heparin

Substance obtained from the liver that slows blood clotting

Hereditary hemochromatosis

A genetic disorder that causes the body to absorb too much iron from food

International normalized ratio

Inflammation

Occurs when tissue reacts to chemical or physical trauma or invasion of pathogenic microorganisms

Hereditary spherocytosis

An inherited blood disorder characterized by a mutation that causes red blood cells to take on a spherical shape

Iron deficiency anemia

Condition that results from lack of adequate amounts of iron in the diet

Leukemia

A cancerous condition in which there is a great increase in the number of white blood cells

Leukocytes

White blood cells

Leukopenia

A decrease in the normal number of white blood cells synthesized

Monocytes

Leukocytes manufactured in bone marrow and the spleen, wall off infected areas

Lymphocytes

Type of white blood cells synthesized

Leukocytosis

An increase in the white blood cells synthesized count above 10,000 cells per cubic millimeter

Multiple myeloma

Malignant neoplasm of plasma cells or B lymphocytes

Pathogenic

Disease causing

Myeloblasts

Cells that synthesize granulocytes in bone marrow

Neutrophils

Many lobed white blood cells that phagocytize bacteria,

Oxyhemoglobin

Hemoglobin combined with oxygen

Pernicious anemia

Caused by decrease of vitamin B12 or lack or intrinsic factor in the stomach

Pus

Product of inflammation,

Prothrombin time

Blood test done to determine clotting time of blood

Plasma

Liquid part of blood without its cellular elements

Polycythemia

Too many red blood cells

Prothrombin

A globulin that helps blood coagulate

Pyrexia

Fever

Rh factor

Antigen found in red blood cells

Septicemia

Presence of pathogenic organisms in the blood

Sedimentation rate

A blood test that measures the time it takes red blood cells to settle to the bottom in an upright tube.

Pyrogens

Chemical release when there is inflammation.

Thalassemia

Cooleys anemia

Thrombin

Enzyme found in blood