Blood Word Wall

5. A soft highly vascular connective tissue
6. One of the million disks of vertebrate blood that assist in blood clot
7. The engulfing process by phagocytes
10. The great arterial trunk that carries blood from the heart to be distributed by branch arteries through the body
11. The process used to separate plasma into its component proteins
13. A cell that engulfs and consumes foreign material and debris
15. red blood cell
17. A microorganism causing disease
20. white blood cells

1. A deficiency or a decreased number of red blood cells that causes weakness, fatigue, and pallor.
2. A leukocyte that helps form antibodies
3. The process of transfusing fluid into a vein or artery
4. A fluid composed of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets suspend in plasma.
8. A substance that hinders the clotting of blood
9. Cells An unspecialized cell that gives rise to differentiated cells
12. period The time interval between HIV infection and HIV antibodies
14. A tube in which a body fluid is contained
16. The red blood cell molecule that carries oxygen and makes blood red
18. The most prevalent protein in plasma
19. Any of the tubular branching vessels carrying to the heart