Across
- 4. low WBC count; commonly caused by drugs and anticancer agents
- 6. bleeder's disease
- 11. RBCs become spiky shaped; prominent among blacks
- 12. an excessive increase in the number of erythrocytes
- 13. WBCs that release histamines
- 14. iron-bearing protein
- 15. another name for white blood cells
- 17. are the living portion of blood(RBCs, WBCs, and Platelets)
- 18. 90% of plasma
- 19. WBCs that are part of the immune system
- 20. nonliving fluid matrix
- 25. percentage of total volume of a blood sample
Down
- 1. a substance that the body recognizes as foreign
- 2. the slipping of white blood cells in and out of blood vessels
- 3. the junction between erythrocytes and platelets
- 5. WBCs that kill parasitic worms
- 7. another name for red blood cells
- 8. the river of life
- 9. stoppage of bleeding
- 10. "recognizers"
- 16. blood cell formation
- 21. a decrease in the oxygen carrying ability of RBCs
- 22. WBCs that are active phagocytes that are active during chronic infection
- 23. cell fragments used for clotting
- 24. rupture of red blood cells