Saturday, June 30, 2012

Haematology I


  1. What is the normal pH of blood ?
 7.4

  1. What is the specific gravity of normal human blood?
 1050 - 1060

  1. What is the average number of red blood cells present in one cubic milimetre of adult human blood?
 5 million cells / mm²

  1. What  are the platelets also called as?
 Thrombocytes

  1. What is the the proportion of plasma present in a normal adult?
 55%

  1. What is the total amount of plasma proteins present in a normal adult?
  6 – 8 g %

  1. What is present in the vesicles of the thrombocytes?
5-hydroxy tryptamine (5-HT)

  1. What is the normal ratio of albumin to globulin?
2:1

  1. Which ingredient in the blood is responsible for exerting the colloidal osmotic / oncotic pressure?
Albumin

  1. Where in the body are the plasma proteins, albumin and fibrinogen synthesized?
The liver

 ( Physiology , UMS 2008 )

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