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The primary goal of blood transfusion is to improve ________________ delivery to the tissues. 

What are considered the ‘Big Three’ properties of an ideal drug?(Select all that apply.)

When discussing the properties of an ideal drug, “ease of administration” refers to how convenient and straightforward it is to give a medication. How does this drug property primarily affect a drug’s intended result?

The two lobes of the pituitary gland together produce and/or release how many hormones?

The function of hemoglobin contained in RBCs is to

Which organ secretes most of the plasma proteins present in blood?

Normally, most of the iron removed from degraded hemoglobin on worn out RBC’s is

All the red blood cells originate/are formed in the

A hormone involved in “glucose-sparing” that promotes glucose formation in the liver is

Bill wants to determine his blood type, so he takes a few drops of blood from a puncture wound in his finger and mixes it with various antisera. His blood cells agglutinate when mixed with the anti-A sera but not with the anti-B or anti-D sera. What does this mean? (sera is a clotting factor.