Across
- 2. first step in hemostasis,reduces blood loss.
- 3. a fixed clot in a vessel
- 6. red blood cells
- 8. Rh blood groups
- 11. decreased oxygen in blood
- 12. specialized substance that can provide immunity
- 13. (A B, AB, O)
- 17. the second stage of hemostasis, in which platelets pile and stick together to plug the hole in a broken vessel
- 18. blood clotting
Down
- 1. white blood cells that have visible granules in their cytoplasm
- 4. blood cell formation
- 5. low white blood cell count
- 7. white blood cells that lack visible granules
- 9. free-floating clot in a vessel
- 10. white blood cells
- 14. high white blood cell count
- 15. required to make clotting proteins
- 16. stem cells that give rise to all the formed elements of the blood