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A 35-Year-Old Woman's Physician Orders Laboratory Blood Tests

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A 35-year-old woman's physician orders laboratory blood tests. Her fresh blood is drawn and centrifuged in the presence of heparin as an anticoagulant to obtain a hematocrit. From top to bottom, the fractions resulting from centrifugation are which of the following?


A) Serum, packed erythrocytes, and leukocytes
B) Leukocytes, erythrocytes, and serum proteins
C) Plasma, buffy coat, and packed erythrocytes
D) Fibrinogen, platelets, buffy coat, and erythrocytes
E) Albumin, plasma lipoproteins, and erythrocytes

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