Across
- 2. Makes up 90% of plasma
- 6. Blood vessel that contains valves to prevent the backflow of blood
- 7. The ability of the body to fight infection through the production of antibodies
- 9. A disease where the sufferer lacks one of the clotting factors.
- 11. Blood forms solid clots to plug and help and injury
- 13. Protein in blood that binds to foreign substances to destroy them
- 14. Substance in the blood that stops coagulation
- 17. Viruses, bacteria, other microorganisms that cause disease
Down
- 1. A protein that binds to oxygen in red blood cells
- 3. Any substance that can cause an immune response
- 4. Where blood cells are made
- 5. A protein produced at the site of an injury; a fibrous strand-like substance that creates a web or dam to form a clot in the flow of blood
- 8. Created when large pieces of bone marrow break apart
- 10. Consists of a single layer of epithelial cells
- 12. make up 45% of the blood volume; have no nucleus as mature cells
- 14. Condition where person has insufficient red blood cells or hemoglobin
- 15. Blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart
- 16. An action that protects the body from blood loss from an injury
- 17. The fluid portion of blood
