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What is the origin and production of the formed elements?
Formed elements are cellular components of blood and are of three types: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
When are the red blood cells formed?
in the bone-marrow
Which formed element is a leukocyte?
Leukocytes is another name for white blood cell. These formed elements fight infections and other "foreign" invaders. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
What is the smallest formed element in the blood?
Thrombocytes are the smallest formed elements in the blood. In my Medical Terminology book, it says "The smallet formed elements found in blood are platelets. Although they are sometimes called thrombocytes, they are not true cells, as the term erroneously suggests, but merely fragments of cells."
What is human blood an example of?
A formed element
Where is blood formed?
blood cells are formed in bone marrow.
Where are blood cells formed?
blood cells are formed in bone marrow.
Does the heart generate the formed elements of the blood?
The heart does not make the formed elements of the blood. The formed elements are made in the bone marrow. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
Is blood a formed element?
Basophils are one of the formed elements of blood. Basophils are the least common type of white blood cell. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
Is globulin a formed element in the blood?
Fibrinogen is not a formed element of blood. It's a chemical component in the plasma. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
Blood cells are formed from what?
Blood cells are formed from haematopoietic stem cells by the process of haematopoiesis.
Do the formed elements of blood include defense proteins?
Formed elements of blood do not include the defense proteins known as antigens. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
Is blood composed of formed elements in a fluid matrix?
Yes, blood is a connective tissue made up of formed elements and plasma. The formed elements are the red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
How is blood formed in birds?
i do not have a hint about this
If the birds bones are hollow where are the blood cells formed?
Birds are having hollowbones to enhance their flight, but as in other animals the blood cells are formed in the bones, i doubt where the blood cells are formed in birds
The process by which all blood cells are formed?
Hematopoiesis or hemopoiesis is the process by which all blood cells are formed.
How are the formed elements of blood related?
The formed elements of blood are related in that they are all the cells or cell fragments that comprise the solid portion of blood, and they arise from the same type of stem cell. The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes).
