The nurse is explaining the role of red blood cells with oxygen transport in the body with a nursing student. Which term should the nurse use to describe hemoglobin that has given up its oxygen to the body's cells?
a. Reduced
b. Detached
c. Oxyhemoglobin
d. Hypoxyhemoglobin
ANS: A
Once hemoglobin gives up its oxygen to the cells of the body, it becomes reduced hemoglobin. C. Oxyhemoglobin is formed in the pulmonary capillaries where the hemoglobin combines with the oxygen in the lungs. B. D. Detached and hypoxyhemoglobin are not terms used to describe hemoglobin that has released oxygen into body cells.
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