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CHAPTER 10 BLOOD AND CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
DISORDERS.
Built around real course units and objectives!
The circulatory system consists of - Answer: cardiovascular system and lymphatic system


Arteries—arterioles - Answer: carry blood away from the heart, walls thick


Veins—venules - Answer: carry blood toward the heart, walls not as thick


Capillaries - Answer: Microcirculation within tissues, smaller disease can get here first


Systemic circulation - Answer: Exchange of gases, nutrients, and wastes in tissues


Pulmonary circulation - Answer: Gas exchange in lungs


Muscle contraction help to - Answer: Push blood back up and help reduce edema


Histology of Arteries and Veins - Answer: Tunica intima, Tunica media, Tunica adventitia
(externa)


Tunica intima - Answer: endothelium (simple squamous epithelium)
Inner layer


Tunica media - Answer: middle layer, mostly smooth muscle


Tunica adventitia (externa) - Answer: connective tissue with fibrocytes, collagen (type I),
and elastic fibers, Vasodialation and constriction



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,Composition of Blood - Answer: Plasma, cellular components


Plasma - Answer: Plasma proteins


Cellular component of blood - Answer: Erythrocytes
Leukocytes
Thrombocytes (platelets)


SEE SLIDE 7 Picture/chart - Answer:


Hematopoiesis - Answer: Creation or manufacturing of blood cells


Normal Red Blood Cells looks like - Answer: Cheerios or donuts, Biconcave flexible discs,
No nucleus in mature state


Normal Red blood cells - Answer: appear as biconcave discs


Erythropoietin - Answer: produced in the kidney stimulates erythrocyte production.


Normal Red Blood Cells - Answer: -Contains hemoglobin
--Globin portion
--Heme group
-Life span—120 days


Hemoglobin does - Answer: binds with oxygen


Breakdown of Hemoglobin - Answer: Heme and Globin


Breakdown of Hemoglobin (Heme) - Answer: - Iorn

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, --Recycled to bone marrow or stored


Breakdown of Hemoglobin (globin) - Answer: Aminio acids recycled


Breakdown of Hemoglobin (conjugated) - Answer: - Transported bound to serum albumin
--Blood
--Liver- conjugated with glucuronic acid
--Bilirubin- conjugated
--Bile


Blood Clotting - Answer: Hemostasis


Three steps of Hemostasis - Answer: -Vasoconstriction or vascular spasm after injury (ICE)
-Platelet clot
-Coagulation mechanism
--Plasmin will eventually break down the blood clot.


Hemostasis and Anticoagulant Drugs, how the clot forms and where each type of med
intervenes
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Intrinsic Pathway - Answer: Activated by endothelial injury in the blood


Extrinsic Pathway - Answer: Activated by tissue and platelet injury


Is calcium required for Anticoagulant drugs to work? T of F - Answer: True


Oral anticoagulants - Answer: Warfarin (Coumadin)
Block synthesis of prothrombin

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