Human Anatomy & Physiology 12

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