A patient is admitted with a large inflamed leg wound. The nurse realizes that the white blood cell type responsible for initiating the inflammatory response is the:
1. Basophil.
2. Neutrophil.
3. Eosinophil.
4. Monocyte.
Basophil.
Rationale: Basophils mature into mast cells that are filled with granules of histamine that, in response to an injury, release large quantities of histamine that stimulate the inflammatory response. Neutrophils consume cellular debris and bacterial and viral particles. Eosinophils increase in the presence of parasites and allergies. They increase the inflammatory response, rather than initiate it. Monocytes arrive at the site of an injury hours or days after the neutrophils and continue to consume large amounts of cellular debris.
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