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ANAT.+PHYS.LAB MANUAL-W/ACCESS >CUSTOM<
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Chapter 18.1, Problem 3AYLO
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The components of blood, amounts of plasma and formed elements, and the three categories of formed elements.

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Blood is considered as a fluid connective tissue and totals a volume between 4 and 6 liters in an average adult. Connective tissues are classically defined as being composed of cells and an extracellular matrix, and in the case of blood, plasma is the extracellular matrix component in which three formed elements are suspended. The term formed elements is used to include platelets, which are not typical cells but are fragments of cells, along with the other blood cells like red blood cells and leukocytes.

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