Origin of platelet
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He still had no fever, but his blood work showed a dramatic decline in platelets.Arafat’s Polonium Poisoning Mystery Resurfaces
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This ferment can therefore be derived from most tissues, including also the white blood corpuscles and the platelets.
Thrombogen is produced from the leucocytes, but it is not yet certain whether it is also formed from the platelets.
- a minute cell occurring in the blood of vertebrates and involved in clotting of the bloodFormerly called: thrombocyte
C19: a small plate
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Word Origin and History for platelets
1895, formed in English from plate + diminutive suffix -let.
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- A minute, irregularly shaped, disklike cytoplasmic body found in blood plasma that promotes blood clotting and has no definite nucleus, no DNA, and no hemoglobin.blood platelet thrombocyte
- Any of the numerous small, round cell fragments found in the blood of mammals that function in the clotting of blood. Platelets contain no nuclei and are formed in the bone marrow from precursor cells called megakaryocytes. Platelets contribute to the coagulation process by adhering to damaged blood vessels, fibrinogen, and other platelets. An inadequate number of platelets leads to uncontrolled bleeding.
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Small, flat disks in the blood that aid in clotting.
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