platelets

1. Small, flat disks in the blood that aid in clotting.

Example Sentences

He still had no fever, but his blood work showed a dramatic decline in platelets.

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Blood platelets clump together more slowly in chocolate eaters, the studies say.

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The body sees this as an injury and sends blood platelets to the injured site.

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It is a building block of protein and found in large amounts in the brain, retina, heart, and blood platelets.

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This ferment can therefore be derived from most tissues, including also the white blood corpuscles and the platelets.

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Thrombogen is produced from the leucocytes, but it is not yet certain whether it is also formed from the platelets.

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The number of blood platelets is increased, running parallel, as is usually the case, with the number of red cells (Table 4).

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We call particular attention, in this connection, to the strong alkalinity of the blood platelets.

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The blood-platelets were first described by Hayem, later by Bizzozero, as a third formed element of normal blood.

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