The Components of Blood and Their Importance

Published 2018-08-02
Blood is a specialized fluid in your body that has four main components, each with a different function: plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Watch this video to learn more about how these components work. For more information on blood and its disorders, visit ASH's patient resources webpage hematology.org/Patients/.

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  • @jamessackroyd
    Red blood cells: oxygen, nutrients White blood cells: protect againts infection Plasma: carries proteine that regulates bleeding and clotting Platelets: stop bleeding helps prevents wounds
  • @TalkingBenToLife
    Transcript: Blood ten pits of life force coursing through thousands of miles of arteries veins and capillaries. Those blood vessels carry blood to every other organ keeping functioning and thriving. Our red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients. Our platelets stop bleeding and help to heal our wounds. Our white blood cells protect us against infection. And the yellow liquid plasma in which they are suspended carries an array of proteins that regulate bleeding and clotting.
  • stop checking the comments and start taking notes for school - i know that’s why your here
  • 0:25 Red blood cells carry oxygen and nutrients 0:31 Platelets stop bleeding and help heal wounds 0:37 White blood cells protect against infection
  • @anonnimoose7987
    Red Blood Cells: deliverypersons that carry oxygen and nutrients to the entire town.1 White Blood Cells: pale people holding knives. Loves to kill germs Platelets: little kids with tape, deals with repairing roads Killer T Cells: soldiers in black suit with caps that says KILL Macrophages: maids with hammers
  • @_bee-foree5715
    These blood vessels even work more than me in my life 😂😂
  • The job of blood doesn't mean it will just stay at body. Their are more important functions of blood that are shown below: Red blood cell: Red blood cells carry oxygen around our body. They are flattened wheeled shaped, they don't have any nucleus. It contains a special pigment, haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is iron and protein. Blood becomes bright red in the presence of oxy-haemoglobin inside them. When oxygen and haemoglobin reacts together it formed oxy-haemohlobin. White blood cell: The function of white blood cell is to fight against different germs and diseases. It also helps to produce a kind of antibodies that is produced by white cells. Platelets : Platelets as Thrombocytes helps to recovery from cuts and burns. Platelets form a network pattern around the cutting wound and stops bleeding. Plasma : Plasma is a yellowish liquid. It carries wastes, hormones and other things etc. Blood: blood is very important in human body for circulation. It carries oxygen, haemoglobin, wastes, carbondioxide etc from the body.
  • I only came here not because of school, because I like learning about the body and how it functions, aswell as the anime of cells at work.
  • What are the blood components lady, name them all , like the proteins , the metals etc.
  • And blood cells are speaking their informations when they are near me..... including their body oxygen levels.... And centuries is of their body memories....
  • @nygal1668
    Blood is the most important and ironically the backbone of the organisms. It helps,not only in functioning life, but also works as a transport for the body. But what good it is if spilled. Gunshot
  • @vietcool7269
    Blood cells: we are docter white blood cells: WE ARE ARMY PROJECT HUMAN BODY
  • @Minchboo
    Hey, everyone! You’re doing your science homework, I see? You’re likely a first year too, like me? Doing their homework?