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1. What are the main
functions of the blood?
2. What are the constituent
elements of the blood?
3. What is hematopoiesis?
4. Where does hematopoiesis
occur?
5. In which bones can bone
marrow chiefly be found? Is
the bone marrow made of
osseous tissue?
6. What are blood stem cells?
7. What are the other names
by which erythrocytes are
known? What is the function
of these cells?
8. What is the name of the
molecule that transports
oxygen in red blood cells?
9. What is the molecular
composition of hemoglobin?
Does the functionality of
hemoglobin as a protein
depend upon its tertiary or
upon its quaternary structure?
10. On average what is the life
duration of the red blood
cells? Where are they
destroyed? What is the
destination of the heme
groups after the destruction of
hemoglobin molecules?
11. What are the functions of
the spleen? Why is a total
splenectomy (surgical removal
of the spleen) compatible with
life?
12. What is anemia? What are
the four main types of
anemia?
13. What is the difference
between white and red blood
cells? What are leukocytes?
14. What are the types of
leukocytes and how are they
classified into granulocytes
and agranulocytes?
15. What is the generic
function of leukocytes? What
are leukocytosis and
leukopenia?
16. What are the mechanisms
of hemorrhage contention
called?
17. How are platelets formed?
What is the function of
platelets? What consequences
does the clinical condition
known as thrombocytopenia
yield?
18. How does the organism
understand that a clotting
process must begin?
19.How can the blood
coagulation(clotting)process
be described?
20. What are clotting factors?
21. What is the organ where
most of the clotting factors
are produced? What is the role
of vitamin K in the blood
coagulation?
22. What is factor VIII? What
is the genetic disease in which
this factor is absent?
23. How is hemophilia
treated? Why is hemophilia
rare in females?
24. What is the
epidemiological association
between hemophilia and HIV
infection?
25. What are anticoagulants?
What are the practical
applications of anticoagulants,
like heparin, in Medicine?
26. What is dicoumarol? How
does this substance act in the
clotting process and what are
some examples of its toxicity?
27. Streptokinase is a
substance used in the
treatment of acute myocardial
infarction. How does this
substance act?