platelets

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

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How to use platelets in a sentence

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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1|Various
Thrombogen is produced from the leucocytes, but it is not yet certain whether it is also formed from the platelets.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1|Various
The number of blood platelets is increased, running parallel, as is usually the case, with the number of red cells (Table 4).
Scurvy Past and Present|Alfred Fabian Hess
We call particular attention, in this connection, to the strong alkalinity of the blood platelets.
Histology of the Blood|Paul Ehrlich
The blood-platelets were first described by Hayem, later by Bizzozero, as a third formed element of normal blood.
Histology of the Blood|Paul Ehrlich