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The destruction of red blood cells is known as hemolysis. The process mostly involves the swelling and eventual rupture of the cell, which then spills its contents into the bloodstream.
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What Destruction of red blood cells results in the waste product called?
Bilirubin.
Does the destruction of red blood cells release heme to reproduce in bone marrow?
Red blood cells can not reproduce because they do not have a nucleus like all other cells. Red blood cells last at least 3-4 months. When they are destroyed, heme (consisting of iron) is released; the iron is used to reproduce red blood cells.
Describe a red Blood cell?
If someone asked you to describe a red blood cell, the first thing you should tell them is that red blood cells do not have a nucleus. Red blood cells are elastic. They are normally the shape of a disc, but can be squeezed into a bell shape.
What cell transports oxygen?
red blood cells
What is the major difference between red blood cells and white blood cells?
Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, but white blood cells do not
What causes the destruction of red blood cells?
hemophagia
Is the rupture of red blood cells?
HemolysisDestruction of Blood Cells: the destruction of red blood cells and the release of the hemoglobin they contain.
What is the medical term meaning destruction of red blood cells?
Hemolysis is the breakdown of red blood cells. = hemo (blood/hemacyte) + lysis (to separate/breaking down of/destruction)
What is the medical term for pertaining to the destruction of blood anemia?
Hemolysis is the medical term meaning destruction of red blood cells. Hemolytic anemia is an abnormal decrease in the number of red blood cells due to their destruction.
What is the destruction of red blood cells that results in the liberation of hemoglobin?
Hemolysis is the destruction of red blood cells or Erythrocytes with a release of hemoglobin that diffuses into the surrounding fluid.
Is the Destruction of old red blood cells a function of thymus?
It is actually the spleen that filters out old and useless red blood cells.
What is the destruction of RBCs caused by an antibody antigen response?
Lysis is the destruction of red blood cells
What Destruction of red blood cells results in the waste product called?
Bilirubin.
When some snakebites can cause haemolysis what is this?
Haemolysis is the the rupture or destruction of red blood cells.
Does the destruction of red blood cells release heme to reproduce in bone marrow?
Red blood cells can not reproduce because they do not have a nucleus like all other cells. Red blood cells last at least 3-4 months. When they are destroyed, heme (consisting of iron) is released; the iron is used to reproduce red blood cells.
What is the hemolytic disease of the newborn?
This is a condition in which there is abnormal destruction of the red blood cells of the baby. It can be due to blood group incompatibility between mother and baby or due to diseases of red blood cells in the baby.
Does the liver take part in the destruction and recycling of red blood cell components?
The liver recycles the heme component of the hemoglobin molecule salvaged during destruction of red blood cells by the spleen.
