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Platelets help make blood clot. A clot is when the liquid blood becomes solid. The body makes blood clot when the skin is cut. This stops blood from going out of the skin too much.
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simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood
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Rather than make blood less likely to clot, lupus anticoagulant makes blood clot more readily, especially in arteries. ... Clotting in arteries may be treated with a drug that makes platelets less likely to clump and thus makes blood clots less likely to form. These drugs, called antiplatelet drugs, include aspirin,
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www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_ha/sec3/ch49/ch49d.html
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Ultimately, fibrin is formed, the protein that crosslinks with itself to form a mesh that makes up the final blood clot. ... The medical term for a blood clot is a thrombus (plural= thrombi). When a thrombus is formed as part of a normal repair process of the body, there is little consequence. Unfortunately,
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www.medicinenet.com/blood_clots/article.htm
www.medicinenet.com/blood_clots/article.htm
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Once activated, the two subunits of GPIIb-IIIa that extend outside the cell can clasp the walls of a damaged blood vessel or a passing fibrinogen molecule ¡V much like a bobby pin can close around strands of hair ¡V thereby forming a normal blood clot or a pathologic thrombus.
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www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/uopm-ast043003....
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-05/uopm-ast043003.php
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We can’t afford to lose any blood. Even though a healthy person can lose as much as one third of all his blood and still live, a steady loss of blood, or loss of blood while we are sick, would be very dangerous. Nature has protected us agai...
http://burymeinthisdress.com/blog/2005/08/31/what-makes...
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Removal of a large blood clot from the vein or injection of clot-busting medicine ... Venous blood clot ... Deep venous thrombosis is a condition in which a blood clot forms in a vein that is deep inside the body.
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www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000156.htm
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So how exactly does blood do these things? How is it made, and what's in it? How does blood clot? It's time to learn a little about the mysterious, life-sustaining fluid called blood.
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kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/body_basics/blood.html
kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/body_basics/blood.html
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Vitamin K, the substance responsible for triggering the so-called blood-clotting 'cascade', may work by becoming an incredibly strong base, a team of chemists in the US has found. Paul Dowd, Seung Wook Ham and Steven Geib of the University ...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13217963.100-scie...
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All I know is that when I had my surgery I developed one im my Left lung ! are you sure you dont mean "blood clot"? because there is no such thing as a blood chit. a blood clot is when blood doesnt circulate in a certain place fo...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_causes_blood_to_clot
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