- blood platelet
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any of numerous, minute, protoplasmic bodies in mammalian blood that aid in coagulation.[1895-1900]
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blood platelet
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blood platelet — n PLATELET * * * platelet … Medical dictionary
blood platelet — n. any of the minute, disklike, colorless elements of the blood that are essential for normal clotting … English World dictionary
blood platelet — blood′ plate let n. anat. any of the minute, nonnucleated cellular elements in mammalian blood essential for coagulation • Etymology: 1895–1900 … From formal English to slang
blood platelet — noun tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting • Syn: ↑platelet, ↑thrombocyte • Hypernyms: ↑protoplasm, ↑living substance * * * noun, pl ⋯ lets [count] : ↑platelet … Useful english dictionary
blood platelet — noun Date: 1896 platelet … New Collegiate Dictionary
blood plate thrombus — blood platelet thrombus platelet t … Medical dictionary
Platelet — An irregular, disc shaped element in the blood that assists in blood clotting. During normal blood clotting, the platelets clump together (aggregate). Although platelets are often classed as blood cells, they are actually fragments of large bone… … Medical dictionary
platelet — /playt lit/, n. Cell Biol. a small platelike body, esp. a blood platelet. [1890 95; PLATE1 + LET] * * * or thrombocyte Small, colourless, irregular blood cell crucial in coagulation. Produced in bone marrow and stored in the spleen, platelets… … Universalium
platelet-activating factor — plate·let ac·ti·vat·ing factor .ak tə .vāt iŋ n phospholipid that is produced esp. by mast cells and basophils, causes the aggregation of blood platelets and the release of blood platelet substances (as histamine or serotonin), and is a mediator… … Medical dictionary
platelet — noun Date: 1895 a minute flattened body (as of ice or a mineral); especially a minute colorless disklike body of mammalian blood that assists in blood clotting by adhering to other platelets and to damaged epithelium called also blood platelet,… … New Collegiate Dictionary
