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 Show the path of blood circulation inside the body using a simple diagram form

 What are the different formed elements of the blood and their functions?

Answers:

A. Show the path of blood circulation inside the body using a simple diagram form.

Superior and Inferior


Right Atrium Right Ventricle
Vena Cava

Pulmonary Vein Lungs Pulmonary Artery

Left Atrium Left Ventricle Aorta

Body
B. What are the different formed elements of the blood and their functions?

 Erythrocytes

Erythrocytes, or red blood cells, are the foremost numerous of the formed


elements. Erythrocytes are tiny biconcave disks, thin within the middle and
thicker round the periphery. The form provides a mixture of flexibility for
moving through tiny capillaries with a maximum area for the diffusion of
gases. The first function of erythrocytes is to move oxygen and, to a lesser
extent, carbon dioxide.

 Leukocytes

Leukocytes, or white blood cells, are generally larger than erythrocytes,


but they're fewer in number. Although they're considered to be blood cells,
leukocytes do most of their add the tissues. They use the blood as a transport
medium. Some are phagocytic, others produce antibodies; some secrete
histamine and heparin, et al. neutralize histamine. Leukocytes are able
to move through the capillary walls into the tissue spaces, a process called
diapedesis. Within the tissue spaces they supply a defense against
organisms that cause disease and either promote or inhibit inflammatory
responses.

 Thrombocytes

Thrombocytes, or platelets, aren't complete cells, but are small fragments of


very large cells called megakaryocytes. Megakaryocytes develop from
hemocytoblasts within the red bone marrow. Thrombocytes become sticky
and clump together to make platelet plugs that close breaks and tears in
blood vessels. They also initiate the formation of blood clots.
Reference:

Trobe, K. (2016, August) How blood travels from the body systems to the lungs.

https://slideplayer.com/slide/4156674/

Whitney, M. (2021, May) An Overview of Blood


https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Human_Anato
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