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What is the medical term meaning Pathologic condition in which the blood 's ability to carry oxygen is reduced due to a shortage of normal hemoglobin or too few red blood cells?
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Anemia is the medical term meaning the blood has a reduced ability to carry oxygen due to inadequate hemoglobin or red blood cells. Anemia has many different causes, but iron deficiency is a common one.
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Hemoglobin gives red blood cells the ability to?
Hemoglobin gives the red blood cells the ability to carry oxygen.
Inherited defect in ability to produce hemoglobin?
Thalassemia
What ability does hemoglobin give red blood cells?
to be red!
Is responsible for the RBC's ability to transport oxygen and CO2.?
Hemoglobin
What is an Inherited inability to produce hemoglobin?
Thalassemia: An inherited defect in the ability to produce hemoglobin, usually seen in persons of Mediterranean background.
Which accurately describes a shortage?
When demand for something is greater than the ability, or desire to supply that 'something'.
What is the most important characteristic of hemoglobin?
Hemoglobin is the protein that resides in red blood cells that allows them to carry oxygen. Without hemoglobin and its oxygen carrying ability the cells of our bodies would not be able to obtain any oxygen which is crucial for our survival.
What is responsible for the RBC's ability to transport oxygen and CO2?
It is an iron-based protein called hemoglobin.
The deadly gas found in burning cigarettes that interferes with the ability of hemoglobin to carry oxygen is called?
carbon monoxide
What is the role of heme in cell metabolism of immature red blood cells?
Heme is the featured component of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the red pigment that gives red blood cells their characteristic color and their essential ability to transport oxygen.
Define anemia and give three possible causes?
Anemia is a decrease in the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood. causes decreaes in rbc number inadaquate hemoglobin content in rbc abnormal hemoglobin in rbc.... human anatomy classic
Why the hemoglobin is increased in smoker patients?
In anyone who is chronically hypoxic, as can occur to smokers, the body will respond by increasing the production of red blood cells in order to have the ability to carry more oxygen to the tissues. Hemoglobin is one of the components of red blood cells, so when the number of red blood cells increases so does the hemoglobin.
