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