Across
- 2. Component of plasma, excluding clotting factors
- 5. Granulocytes, monocytes and lymphocytes (white blood cells)
- 7. Precursor of fibrin, found in blood plasma
- 8. Fragments of larger cells, involved in clotting
- 11. Process by which blood is separated into its components
- 14. Soluble protein that functions to manage the osmotic pressure of blood
- 15. Makes up 90% of the fluid (plasma) portion of blood
- 16. A condition resulting from too few red blood cells
Down
- 1. A disorder resulting from insufficient clotting proteins in the blood
- 3. Blood cells that carry oxygen
- 4. Percentage of blood made up of red blood cells
- 6. What gives red blood cells their colour
- 9. Cancer of the white blood cells
- 10. Proteins that act to neutralize and destroy foreign substances
- 12. Forms a mesh during blood clotting
- 13. The fluid component of blood