The Human Body in Health and Disease 7th Edition by Patton CHAPTER 13

THE HUMAN BODY IN HEALTH & DISEASE 7TH EDITION BY PATTON CHAPTER 13

1. What is plasma?: ANS The liquid (extracellular) part.

2. What are formed elements?: ANS Many different types of cells and
cell fragments suspended in the plasma

3. What is blood plasma?: ANS Is the liquid part of the blood, or blood
minus its formed elements.

4. How much water is blood plasma made up of?: ANS 91%

5. What percent of plasma proteins are in blood plasma?: ANS 7%

6. What are 3 plasma proteins found in plasma?: ANS Fibrinogen,
Albumin, Globlutin and also Prothrombin

7. What is the percent of plasma in whole blood?: ANS 55%

8. What is the percent of formed elements in whole blood?: ANS 45%

9. What is the percent of RBC in blood?: ANS 99%

10.What is the percent of WBS and platelets (buffy coats) in blood?: ANS
less than 1%

11.Which blood plasma is the smaller and most abundant?: ANS Albumin