1. Chapter 13 Blood System Lesson 13.1
Blood Erythrocytes
Leukocytes Thrombocytes
Basophils Eosinophils
Neutrophils Monocytes
Lymphocytes Type A
Type B Type AB
Type O Rh factor
Coagulation Anticoagulants
Journal question: Why do mature red blood cells look so different from their white counterparts?
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2. Chapter Goals
Identify terms relating to the composition, formation, and function of blood.
Differentiate among the different types of blood groups.
Identify terms related to blood clotting.
Build words and recognize combining forms used in blood system terminology.

3. Chapter Goals (cont’d)
Describe various pathologic conditions affecting blood.
Describe various laboratory tests and clinical procedures used with hematologic disorders, and recognize relevant abbreviations.
Apply your new knowledge to understanding medical terms in their proper contexts, such as medical reports and records.

4. Introduction
Blood: Transports foods, gases, and wastes to and from the cells of the body
Other transported items:
chemical messengers
blood proteins, white blood cells, and platelets
What are chemical messengers called? (hormones)
What do white blood cells do? (Fight infection)
What do platelets do? (help the blood clot)
What is the medical term for WBC? (leukocyte)
What is the medical term for platelet? (thrombocyte)

5. Composition of Blood cells sugar plasma salts water hormones proteins
vitamins
What are cells? (Formed elements, suspended in a clear, straw-colored liquid called plasma.) What percentage of blood volume do cells constitute? (45%. The other 55% are items listed here.)

6. Cell Types and Function
Erythrocytes: red blood cells transport nutrients and oxygen
Leukocytes: white blood cells
Thrombocytes: platelets; clot blood
What is an immature red blood cell called? (erythroblast)
Where do erythrocytes originate? (In bone marrow)
What are cells in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow that destroy worn-out erythrocytes? (macrophages)
What is a phagocyte?
See next slide. Review a normal differential of these cell types in a smear of whole peripheral blood.

7. Cell Types and Function (cont’d)
Leukocytes: or white blood cells
basophils: contain heparin (prevents clotting) and histamine (involved in allergic responses)
eosinophils: phagocytic cells involved in allergic responses and parasitic infections
neutrophils: phagocytic cells that accumulate at sites of infection
monocytes: phagocytic cells that become macrophage and digest bacteria and tissue debris
lymphocytes: control the immune response; make antibodies to antigens

8. Stages in Blood Development (Hematopoiesis)
Explain phagocytosis.

9. Review: Composition of Blood
Describe each section of the chart.

10. Plasma Plasma Proteins albumin globulins: immunoglobulins fibrinogen
(IgG,IgA, IgM, IgD, IgE)
fibrinogen
prothrombin
What are fibrinogen and prothrombin? (Clotting proteins)
What does albumin do? (Maintains the proper proportion and concentration of water in the blood)
What are globulins? (Another part of the blood containing plasma proteins: alpha, beta, and gamma globulins)
What are immunoglobulins? (Antibodies that bind to and sometimes destroy antigens or foreign substances, ie., IgG, IgA)

11. Blood Types Type A: A antigen and anti-B antibody
Type B: B antigen and anti-A antibody
Type AB: A and B antigens and no antibodies (universal recipient)
Type O: no A or B antigens and both anti-A and anti-B antibodies (universal donor)
Rh factor (positive and negative)
Why is blood type matching important for transfusions?
What is Rh factor? What is the difference between Rh-positive and Rh-negative?
Why is blood type matching important for identification of pregnancy? (Most people are Rh positive so problem arises with Rh negative mother with Rh positive fetus.)

12. Blood Clotting Coagulation: fibrin clot
Anticoagulants: heparin, warfarin (Coumadin)
What is blood clotting or coagulation?
The final result (usually taking less than 15 minutes) is the formation of a fibrin clot from the plasma protein fibrinogen.
Why are platelets important in the beginning of the process following injury to tissues or blood vessels?

13. QUICK QUIZ: The blood contains the following to transport oxygen:
white blood cells
plasma
platelets
red blood cells
Correct answer is D: red blood cells

14. QUICK QUIZ: The blood contains the following to transport oxygen:
white blood cells
plasma
platelets
red blood cells
Correct answer is D: red blood cells

15. QUICK QUIZ: (cont’d) 2. Blood contains these clotting cells:
erythrocytes
plasma
thrombocytes
leukocytes
Correct answer is C: thrombocytes

16. QUICK QUIZ: (cont’d) 2. Blood contains these clotting cells:
erythrocytes
plasma
thrombocytes
leukocytes
Correct answer is C: thrombocytes

17. Combining Forms and Terminology
Combining Form Meaning
bas/o base
chrom/o color
coagul/o clotting
cyt/o cell
eosin/o red, dawn, rosy
erythr/o red

18. Terminology granul/o granules hem/o blood hemat/o blood
Combining Form Meaning
granul/o granules
hem/o blood
hemat/o blood
hemoglobin/o hemoglobin
is/o same, equal
kary/o nucleus

19. Combining Forms and Terminology
Combining Form Meaning
leuk/o white
mon/o one, single
morph/o shape, form
myel/o bone marrow
neutr/o neutral
nucle/o nucleus

20. Terminology phag/o eat, swallow poikil/o varied, irregular
Combining Form Meaning
phag/o eat, swallow
poikil/o varied, irregular
sider/o iron
spher/o globe, round
thromb/o clot

21. Suffixes -apheresis -blast -cyte -cytosis -emia -globin -globulin
-lytic
-oid
-osis
-penia
-phage
-philia
-phoresis
-poiesis
-stasis
Ask meanings and examples of terms.
What is thrombolytic therapy? (Used to dissolve clots)
What is plasmapheresis? (A centrifuge spins blood to remove plasma from the other parts of the blood.)