Anatom3DBlood
Sanguis · Krev
Blood & marrow
Looks like
Five litres of red fluid: cells afloat in straw-coloured plasma.
What it does
Carries oxygen, food, heat, hormones and immune cells, and clots to seal leaks.
Keeping it well
Iron and B12 in food, hydration, donate if you can. Tiredness with pallor and breathlessness suggests anaemia.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acute leukaemia (AML & ALL)
- Acute porphyria
- African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
- Anaemia
- Aplastic anaemia & marrow failure
- Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia
- Chronic leukaemia (CML & CLL)
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Delirium
- Dengue & mosquito-borne fevers
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Ebola virus disease
- Essential thrombocythaemia
- G6PD deficiency (favism)
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Hereditary spherocytosis
- High cholesterol
- HIV infection
- Immune thrombocytopenia
- Iron deficiency
- Lead poisoning
- Lymphoma (Hodgkin & non-Hodgkin)
- Malaria
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Maternal (puerperal) sepsis
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis
- Neonatal sepsis
- Neutropenic sepsis
- Newborn jaundice
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Polycythaemia vera
- Postpartum haemorrhage
- Primary immunodeficiency
- Radiation injury
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Sickle cell disease
- Thalassaemia
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Transplant rejection & graft-versus-host disease
- Typhoid & cholera
- Venomous snakebite
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Von Willebrand disease