Blood Review

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Across
  1. 3. nonliving, straw colored, fluid matrix
  2. 6. crucial in body's defense against disease
  3. 8. another name for thrombocyte
  4. 9. decrease in oxygen carrying ability of blood
  5. 10. platelets piling up to clot to stop bleed
  6. 13. universal donor
  7. 14. the only fluid, connective tissue in the body
  8. 16. important blood buffer
  9. 18. functions to kill parasitic worms
  10. 19. consists of leukocytes and platelets
  11. 20. a clot in an unbroken blood vessel
  12. 21. biconcave discs that carry oxygen
  13. 22. genetically determined proteins
  14. 25. rarest WBC
Down
  1. 1. blood cell formation
  2. 2. blood clotting
  3. 4. no nucleus
  4. 5. causes blood vessel to spasm
  5. 7. iron-bearing protein
  6. 11. makes plasma proteins
  7. 12. universal recipient
  8. 15. process of stopping blood vessel bleeding
  9. 17. largest WBC
  10. 23. most numerous WBC
  11. 24. disorder from excessive increase of RBCs