AP II Exam I Study Guide

Activators

Activators

________ are in direct contact with blood or contained within the blood, triggered by Hageman factor (XII; found inside blood)

pathways

What are activated after blood vessel damage? Answer with a single words or term.

Tachycardia

________ can be a result from elevated body temperature, stress, certain drugs, or heat disease.

Repolarization

________ precedes relaxation.

ADP

________ (platelet activator)

Prostacyclin

________ released by endothelial cells (aspirin)

Neutrophil

________: 55 %- 65 %.

Plasmin

________ digests blood clots (generated from plasminogen via the action of a plasma enzyme, kallikrein)

Granulocytes

What are neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils (phils are filled with granules) whereas Arganulalocytes are lymphocytes and monocytes (not filled with granules)

Monocyte

________: phagocytosis of large particles; typhoid, malaria, mononucleosis.

Lymphocyte

________: 25 %- 33 %.

Depolarization

________ precedes contraction.

Bradycardia

What is a heartrate slower than 60 beats /min? Answer with a single words or term.

Hemostasis

What is cessation of bleeding? Answer with a single words or term.

Anemia

________ is the deficiency of RBCs or Hb in RBCs; reduces O2- carrying capacity of blood.

Purkinje

________: 30- 40 beats /min.

Penia

________: deficiency of cell number.

Frontal

pertains to the forehead

Proximal

means nearer to the center (trunk of the body) or to the point of attachment to the body. If another reference point is given, such as the heart, the proximal point of another organ or extremity is the point closest to the heart, central rather than peripheral. Proximal is the opposite of distal.