Blood and Blood Cells Terms
BiologyMedical terminology for blood: neutrophils, basophils, lymphocytes, leukemia, sickle cell and pernicious anemia, and word roots like bas/o.
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Horizontal Words
- Hemoglobin transports ________ and some carbon dioxide throught the blood (6)
- Increase in malignant white blood cells (8)
- Hereditary disorder of abnormal hemoglobin producing sickle-shaped erythrocytes (18)
- morph/o means (5)
- White blood cells and platelets makes <1% of blood _______ (6)
- Have fewer granules than eosinophils (9)
- coagul/o means (8)
- The largest circulating blood cells (9)
- Multiple pinpoint hemorrhages and accumulation of blood under skin (7)
Vertical Words
- Have fine purple-staining cytoplasmic granules (11)
- DO NOT have granular cytoplasm & longer life cycle (13)
- Long lived for many years (11)
- Lack of mature erythrocytes caused by inability to absorb vitamin B12 (17)
- bas/o means (4)
- Excessive bleeding caused by hereditary lack of factors VIII or IX (10)
- hemat/o means (5)
- Blood is a type of (17)
- Reb blood cells (RBC's) are for __________ gas transport (11)
- kary/o means (7)
- Plasma is a mixture of water, amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids & ___ (8)
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