Chapter 14: Blood
Across
- 5. hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells.
- 6. anticoagulant secreted by liver cells.
- 8. Blood clot in a vessel supplying a vital organ(brain, heart).
- 10. overproduction of red blood cells.
- 14. Pigment excreted in the bile.
- 15. plasma minus fibrinogen and most clotting factors.
- 16. Required for hemoglobin synthesis.
- 18. universal donor.
- 20. condition in which white blood cells are overproduced.
- 21. An abnormal blood clot that forms in a blood.
- 22. Condition in which the O2-carrying capacity of the blood is reduced, due to deficiency of RBCs or hemoglobin.
- 25. Death of tissues which have blocked blood vessels due to blood clot formation.
- 26. Engulfing and digestion of pathogens; neutrophils and monocytes are most mobile and active phagocytes.
Down
- 1. Many chemicals used in coagulation.
- 2. Universal Recipient.
- 3. Accumulation of fat in arterial linings can sometimes cause abnormal clot formation; a common form of thrombosis.
- 4. A red blood cell.
- 5. A blood clot moving through the blood vessels.
- 7. Clumping of red blood cells.
- 9. Reaction that restricts spread of infection; promoted by basophils, by secretion of heparin and histamine; involves swelling and increased capillary permeability.
- 11. protein-splitting enzyme that can digest fibrin.
- 12. Attraction of WBCs to an infection site, by chemicals released by damaged cells.
- 13. process that stops bleeding from damaged blood vessels.
- 17. red pigment responsible for the color of blood.
- 19. digests fibrin threads, and dissolves the blood clot.
- 23. A mass lodging in and obstructing a blood vessel.
- 24. Clear, straw-colored fluid matrix of blood.