Sickle-Cell Anemia Is Preventable by Maintaining a Proper Diet

question 37

True/False

Sickle-cell anemia is preventable by maintaining a proper diet.

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Definitions:

Hemostasis

The physiological process by which bleeding ceases, involving blood vessel constriction and clot formation.

Thrombin

An enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood by converting fibrinogen to fibrin.

Systole

Contractile phase of the cardiac cycle.

Diastole

Relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle.