Sickle Cell Crash Course

What is the function of the red blood cells?

• carry oxygen and carbon dioxide
• fight infection
• circulates cells and maintains blood pressure and body temperature
• stops bleeding by clumping and clotting

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How is the blood different between someone with and someone without sickle cell disease? (RBC = red blood cell & WBC = white blood cell)

• There are fewer RBC is a normal person
• There are more WBC in a normal person
• The RBC are disc-shaped in a normal person

True or False:  A patient can have anemia without having sickle cell disease.

• True
• False

A low level of RBC is called (RBC = red blood cell & WBC = white blood cell)

• sickle cell disease
• anemia
• infection
• normal

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of sickle cell disease?

• frequent infections
• yellowed eyes
• avascular necrosis
• hypoglycemia

In Sickle Cell Anemia, which protein is affected by a mutation?

• Insulin
• Hemoglobin
• Glucagon
• Red blood cell

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Another name for Red Blood Cells (RBC).

• Thrombocytes
• Leukocytes
• Erythrocytes
• Eosinophils

A condition in which the blood is deficient (lacking or low) in red blood cells (RBC), in hemoglobin, or in total volume.

• Sickle Cell Anemia
• Anemia
• Hemophilia
• Hemophelia

People with sickle cell anemia are born with it? 

• False 
• True

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How's sickle cell disease diagnosed?

• blood test
• blood vessel 
• chest pain
• head aches