AL 320 Ch 3 BOOK QUIZ
Which of the following is the transport medium that carries the blood cells as well as antibodies
nutrients, electrolytes, hormones, lipids, and waste products?
PLASMA
Clotting is a quick chain reaction stimulated by the release of which the following from
damaged cell linings the blood vessels in the area of injury?
THROMBOPLASTIN
Which of the following is the most common hereditary bleeding disorder?
VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE
Which of the following is defined as a hypocoagulopathy state resulting from the immune
system destroying its own platelets?
IDIOPATHIC THEOMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA
What type of leukemia affects primary adults and responds poorly to chemotherapies but the
prognosis is improved with our allogenic bone marrow transplant?
CHRONIC MYLOID LEUKEMIA
Which of the following is a mainstay treatment for leukemia several courses of which may be
necessary to eradicate the cancer?
CHEMOTHERAPY
Which of the following is a cancer of the plasma cells characterized by excessive numbers of
abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow crowding the blood forming cells causing Bence
Jones proteins to be excreted in the urine?
MULTIPLE MYELOMA
Which of the following is a protein produced by the stomach that is necessary for B12 to be
absorbed in the stomach?
INTRINSIC FACTOR
Which of the following is a rare but serious type of anemia that is a result of the bone marrow
failing to make enough blood cells?
APLASTIC ANEMIA
Sickle cell anemia in which erythrocytes have an abdominal crescent or sickle cell is a genetic
type of which of the following form of anemia?
HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA
What rare condition is considered to be a neoplastic disease because of the uncontrolled
proliferation of cells?
POLYCYTHEMIA VERA
The brighter the shade of red the more the blood is saturated with oxygen?
TRUE
Although the prognosis is excellent for patients with Hodgkin's disease those who were treated
with radiation may be at an increase of stroke and transient ischemic attack?
TRUE
Although it affects 10 times as many adults as children leukemia is the most common cancer
among children?
TRUE
Usually the first responders to arrive on scene of an infection which of the following are
attracted by various chemicals released by infected tissue?
NEUTROPHILS
Which of the following is an infection most commonly caused by the Epstein-Barr virus?
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS