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What is the term for a crushed RBC?

Plasma volume decreases after endurance training (due to chronic sweating), but red blood cell production increases.

Loss in fat free mass that accompanies aging is called sarcopenia.

Define the following RBC Indices found in a CBC. [2 pts each] RBC –  Hgb –  MCV –  MCH –  MCHC –  PCV–  term for too low PCV – term for too high PCV-

Chemical buffers in the blood are only a short-term solution for blood acidosis after exercise.

Resistance training can decrease inhibitory impulses to agonist muscles by reducing autogenic inhibition.

In most cases, stroke volume increases linearly up to maximal levels.

When solutes (such as Na+) move from one fluid compartment to another, water usually follows due to osmosis.

Total lung capacity is algebraically equivalent to vital capacity plus residual volume.

When gases move across the respiratory membrane and are exchanged between the alveoli and the pulmonary capillary blood, this specific process is called pulmonary diffusion.