cardiovascular system

4. a protein found in the body involved in forming blood clots
5. clotting factors do an "activation cascade" and eventually activate fibrin which reinforce the platelet plug
8. 2nd most numerous white blood cell, large nucleus that takes up most of the cell
9. series of reactions that stops the bleeding when a blood vessel breaks
12. rarest white blood cell
13. carries deoxygenated blood back to the heart from the body cells
15. non-cellular, bloods liquid matrix
16. carries oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the body cells
18. small colorless fragments in our blood that form clots and stop/prevent more bleeding
21. a type of protein fiber found abundantly throughout the body
22. circulate blood throughout the body
23. bound platelets activate more platelets which activate more platelets
24. 45 percent of blood volume (red blood cells)
25. most numerous white blood cells (50-70%), multi lobed nucleus

1. a molecule made up of amino acids
2. provides blood supply throughout the body
3. uses enzymes to digest parasitic worms, two lobed nucleus
6. tiny blood vessels that connect arteries and veins at the body cells
7. job is to help clot damaged blood (called hemostasis)
10. glycoprotein crucial to primary hemostasis through platelet and subendothelial collagen adhesion, and the intrinsic coagulation cascade, through factor VIII stabilization
11. purpose: decreases blood loss
14. a pump made of cardiovascular muscle that pumps blood to the body cells
17. transports, fights infection, and clots blood
19. largest leukocyte, 3-8% of white blood cells
20. white blood cells (lifespan 1-3 days)