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Blood and Lymphatic System EXAM Study Guide
Solutions
Edema - Ans:✔✔-the presence of excess interstitial fluid in the body
Embolus - Ans:✔✔-A clot that breaks lose and travels through the bloodstream
Fibrinogen - Ans:✔✔-A blood protein essential to blood clotting. Largest of the plasma protein
Heme - Ans:✔✔-Iron
Immunity - Ans:✔✔-State of being resitant to or protected from a disease.
Lymph Fluid - Ans:✔✔-interstitial fluid from the blood that moves into lymph vessels
Lymph nodes - Ans:✔✔-Collections of lypmhatic tissue, aka lymph glands
Lymphatic capillaries - Ans:✔✔-Smallest lymphatic vessels.
Monocytes - Ans:✔✔-Largest type of white blood cells and are phagocytic in nature; kidney bean shaped
nucleus
Neutrophil - Ans:✔✔-Granulocytes, bands/segmented and are phagocytic in nature.
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Plasma - Ans:✔✔-Liquid portion of blood; that is whole blood minus the formed elements. 90% wate
and 10% solutes.
Spleen - Ans:✔✔-This is located ULQ of the abdomen, just below the diaphragm and behind the
stomach, largest lymphatic organ in the body. (Filters blood, removes pathogens, removes old blood
cells, storage reservor)
Thymus - Ans:✔✔-This gland is located in the media stinum and secretes a hormone call thymosin,
which stimulates the red bone marrow to produce T lymphocytes.
Tonsils - Ans:✔✔-oval lymphatic tissues on each side of the pharynx that filter air to protect the body
from bacterial invasion; also called palatine tonsils
Type O blood - Ans:✔✔-Universal donor
Embolism - Ans:✔✔-the sudden closure of a blood vessel by a traveling blood clot, or embolus.
Thrombus - Ans:✔✔-a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of
origin.
Thrombosis - Ans:✔✔-abnormal condition of blood clotting
Erythrocyte - Ans:✔✔-Red blood cell
hemopoiesis - Ans:✔✔-The process of blood cell formation.
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Blood and Lymphatic System EXAM Study Guide
Solutions
Edema - Ans:✔✔-the presence of excess interstitial fluid in the body
Embolus - Ans:✔✔-A clot that breaks lose and travels through the bloodstream
Fibrinogen - Ans:✔✔-A blood protein essential to blood clotting. Largest of the plasma protein
Heme - Ans:✔✔-Iron
Immunity - Ans:✔✔-State of being resitant to or protected from a disease.
Lymph Fluid - Ans:✔✔-interstitial fluid from the blood that moves into lymph vessels
Lymph nodes - Ans:✔✔-Collections of lypmhatic tissue, aka lymph glands
Lymphatic capillaries - Ans:✔✔-Smallest lymphatic vessels.
Monocytes - Ans:✔✔-Largest type of white blood cells and are phagocytic in nature; kidney bean shaped
nucleus
Neutrophil - Ans:✔✔-Granulocytes, bands/segmented and are phagocytic in nature.
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Plasma - Ans:✔✔-Liquid portion of blood; that is whole blood minus the formed elements. 90% wate
and 10% solutes.
Spleen - Ans:✔✔-This is located ULQ of the abdomen, just below the diaphragm and behind the
stomach, largest lymphatic organ in the body. (Filters blood, removes pathogens, removes old blood
cells, storage reservor)
Thymus - Ans:✔✔-This gland is located in the media stinum and secretes a hormone call thymosin,
which stimulates the red bone marrow to produce T lymphocytes.
Tonsils - Ans:✔✔-oval lymphatic tissues on each side of the pharynx that filter air to protect the body
from bacterial invasion; also called palatine tonsils
Type O blood - Ans:✔✔-Universal donor
Embolism - Ans:✔✔-the sudden closure of a blood vessel by a traveling blood clot, or embolus.
Thrombus - Ans:✔✔-a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of
origin.
Thrombosis - Ans:✔✔-abnormal condition of blood clotting
Erythrocyte - Ans:✔✔-Red blood cell
hemopoiesis - Ans:✔✔-The process of blood cell formation.
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