1. Erythrocytes and albumin are mainly responsible for the_______________ of blood, its resistance to flow.

2. Production of the formed elements of the blood is called _______________ and thetissues that carry this out are called _______________ tissues.

3. The white blood cells are also called _______________.

4. The destiny of the monocytes is to migrate into the tissues andbecome _______________.

5. The nonprotein, iron-containing, oxygen-binding part of thehemoglobin molecule is called the _______________.

6. One way of measuring the oxygen transport capacity of the bloodis to centrifuge it and measure the _______________, the percentage of the blood volume composed of RBCs.

7. An excessively high RBC count due to cancer of the red bonemarrow is called _______________.

8. A person whose genotype is I^Ai has type _______________ blood and one whose genotype is ii has type_______________ blood.

9. Hemolytic disease of the newborn occurs when the mother is bloodtype _______________ and her baby is blood type_______________.

10. The most abundant leukocytes in the blood are _______________, whichfunction mainly to attack bacteria.

11. A sudden increase in granulocyte count due to cancer of the bonemarrow would be classified as _______________ (three words).

12. All the mechanisms that limit blood loss from an injured vesselare collectively called _______________.

13. The _______________ mechanism of blood clotting begins with a clottingfactor, _______________, release from damaged perivascular tissues.

14. The most abundant clotting protein in the blood is _______________, which isconverted to the sticky protein _______________.

15. The development of blood clots in unbroken blood vessels iscalled _______________. If one of these clotsbreaks free and begins to travel in the bloodstream, it is called a/an _______________.

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