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CNHP
Chapter 8
question/term | answer/definition |
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blood | -transports oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to body cells -carries wastes and carbon dioxide away from the cells |
function of the lymphatic system | -protects the body by filtering the lymph -supports activities of lymphocytes in immune response -maintains body’s internal fluid environment as an intermediary between blood capillaries and tissue cells -carries fats away from digestive organs |
blast/o | germ or bud |
chrom/o, chromat/o | color |
chyl/o | juice |
cyt/o | cell |
hem/o, hemat/o | blood |
immun/o | immune, resistant |
lymph/o | clear fluid |
morph/o | form |
phag/o | eat or swallow |
plas/o | formation |
reticul/o | a net |
thromb/o | clot |
thym/o | thymus |
hemoglobin | protein- iron compound in RBC’s |
platelets | cell fragments essential for blood clotting (thrombocytes) |
WBC | leukocytes, granulocytes, agranulocytes |
granulocytes | neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil |
agranulocytes | monocyte, lymphocyte |
upper right quadrant of body drains into | the right lymphatic duct |
the remainder of the body drains into | thoracic duct |
immunity | process of disease protection induced by exposure to an antigen |
antigen | substance that, when introduced into the body, causes the formation of antibodies against it |
antibody | substance produced by the body that destroys or inactivates an antigen that has entered the body |
active immunity | long lasting immunity that results from stimulating the body to produce its own antibodies |
two types of immunity | active or passive |
natural immunity | developed in response to an infection |
artificial immunity | developed in response to the administration of a vaccine |
passive immunity | short lasting immunity that results from foreign antibodies that are conveyed |
natural passive immunity | naturally, through the placenta to a fetus |
ALT | alanine aminotransferase |
AST | aspartate aminotransferase |
BMP | basic metabolic panel |
CD | cluster of differentiation |
ESR | erythrocyte sedimentation rate |
MCH | mean corpuscular hemoglobin |
MCHC | mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration |
PMN | polymorphonuclear (leukocyte) |
RRR | relative risk reduction, regular rate and rhythm |