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Job: To seal small tears in blood
vessels; key in blood clotting
Job: To transport oxygen and carbon
dioxide
Job: To release histamine and other
medicators of inflammation; contains
heparin, an anticoagulant
Job: Phagocytosis

Turns into macrophages in
the tissues
Job: To mount immune system
response by direct cell attack or via
antibodies
Job: To carry blood back to the heart
Job: To phagocycytize bacteria
NEUTROPHIL
BASOPHIL
ARTERY
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EOSINOPHILS
Job: To destroy antigen/antibody
complexes; inactivate some
inflammatory chemicals of allergy
PLATELETS
MONOCYTE
ERYTHROCYTES
LYMPHOCYTE
LEUKOCYTES
VEIN
Job: Defense against disease:
bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins,
and tumor cells
Job: To carry oxygenated blood away
from the heart to body organs,
tissues, and cells
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Description: Bioconcave, anucleate
disc; salmon-colored,
Description: Spherical, nucleated cells;
colorless
7-8um in diameter
Description: Nucleus multi-lobed;
small cytoplasmic granules,
Description: Nucleus bilobed; red
cytoplasmic granules;
10-12 um diameter
10-14 um diameter
Description: Nucleus lobed; large
purplish-black cytoplasmic granules;
10-14 um diameter
Description: Nucleus spherical or
indented, pale blue cytoplasm;
5-17 um diameter
Description: Nucleus U or kidney
shaped; gray-blue cytoplasm;
Description: Discoid cytoplasmic
fragments; stain deep purple;
14-24 um diameter
2-4 um diameter
Description: Thin-walled; thin layers
of tunica interna,
Description: Thick-walled; thickened
tunica media and tunica externa
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Both of these
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