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Thrombocytopenia is the medical term meaning deficiency of platelets. -penia is the combining form meaning deficiency.
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Deficiency of clothing cells platelets?
Thrombocytopenia is the medical term meaning deficiency of platelets. -penia is the combining form meaning shortage.
Do platelets dissolve a forming clot?
Platelets get together and form a clot.
What is the smallest blood cell?
Platelets isn't it capillaries?
Is there mitochondria present in platelets?
Platelets are not cells.They are cell fragments.They do not have Mitochondria.
Megakaryocytes pinch off anucleate fragments called?
platelets.
Deficiency of clothing cells platelets?
Thrombocytopenia is the medical term meaning deficiency of platelets. -penia is the combining form meaning shortage.
What is the decrease of platelets in the circulatory system called?
Thrombocytopenia which occurs in multiple diseases such as Dengue Fever.
What is the definition of thrombocytopenia?
deficiency of platelets in the blood. This causes bleeding into the tissues, bruising, and slow blood clotting after injury.
What is the medical term meaning deficiency of clotting cells?
Thrombocytopenia is the medical term that refers to a deficiency of clotting cells, specifically platelets, in the blood. It can lead to abnormal bleeding and bruising due to the decreased ability of the blood to clot properly.
What are some causes of bleeding disorder?
Here are some causes of bleeding disorder:1. ThrombocytopaeniaThere is a deficient number of circulating platelets. Petechiae appears due to spotaneous, widespread haemorrhage. It can be treated with transfusion of concentrated platelets.2. Impaired liver functionThe liver does not have the ability to synthesise procoagulants. This eads to vitamin K deficiency, hepatitis, and cirrhosis.3. HaemophiliaIt includes several similar hereditary bleeding disorers. Haemophilia A is the most common type of haemophilia and it occurs due to factor VIII deficiency. Haemophilia B is due to factor IX deficiency. As for haemophilia C, this condition is mild and occurs to the the deficiency of factor XI.
What is the medical name of the condition Von willebrand disease?
the body does not produce enough of a protein called von Willebrand factor(vWF) or produces abnormal vWF
How is iron deficiency anemia characterized?
There are a number of characteristics that will show when children have an iron deficiency. Children with an iron deficiency are typically cold and pale.
Why are platelets important when you have a cut?
Platelets help heal your wound, the scabs that form are the platelets
What are microcytic platelets?
platelets that are smaller in size than your average platelets... Can be associated with aplastic anemia.
What cellular component in the blood is crucial in blood clotting?
platelets.
What is chronic thrombocytopenia?
When abnormalities occur in any of the following three processes: decreased platelet production by the bone marrow; increased trapping of platelets by the spleen; or a more rapid than normal destruction of platelets. Persons with this condition easily bruise and can have episodes of excess bleeding (a hemorrhage).idiopathicsystemic lupus erythmatosisleukemiaaplastic anemiahyperspleenismalcoholismblood transfusionbone cancerhiv(some types of viral infection)autoimmunegaucher diseasesarsmyelomadrugs(eg heparin)trypanosomiasispreeclampsiaasphyxiasepsishypothermiaebvcongenital megakaryocyte problemchemical inducedsyphilis
What is the tiny cell fragments in blood?
White blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.
