blood does clot and so can your arteries it will clot if you will have a major accident...
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Do you mean in the sense that it would cause blood to clot? Blood clots and doesn't clot due to something being wrong with clotting factors in the body... wether it be absence of one or possibly something wrong with another.
Whenever a blood vessel is injured, platelets accumulate at the site of injury and help in formation of a blood clot. The clot seals the wound in the blood vessel and prevents blood loss. But if all the blood platelets are removed from blood, blood will not clot and there will be a lot of blood loss.It may even lead to the death of the person
Serum is the liquid portion of blood AFTER it has clot. Compared to plasma, which is the liquid portion of blood before it clots. The difference is the absence of fibrinogen in serum.
If your blood fails to clot when you need it to clot, that can cause you to bleed to death. If, however, your blood clots when it shouldn't clot, while it is still inside your blood vessels, that is likely to result in a blockage of those blood vessels, which can cause a heart attack, stroke, or other serious health consequences, which can easily be fatal.
Tubes used for blood bank (Pink and Lavender top) contain a chemical called EDTA that binds the calcium in blood, which is needed for blood to clot. Red or Gold top tubes contain no chemicals to prevent the blood to clot, so the blood will clot with out being exposed to air. Each specific department in the lab have different colored tubes with different chemical/no chemical in them depending on what test has been ordered.