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STANDARD HEMATOLOGY: Platelets, or thrombocytes, are small, colorless, enucleated bodies. They are produced in the bone marrow by fragmentation of megakaryocytes. Megakaryocytes are large cells found in bone marrow that produce platelets by fragmenting their cytoplasm. Platelets play a vital role in the hemostatic process, which prevents blood loss. When the endothelial lining of a blood vessel is traumatized, platelets are stimulated to go to the site of injury, where they form a plug that helps reduce blood loss.
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Responsible for clotting of blood?
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes or megakaryocyte fragments, are responsible for blood clotting.
What are the fragments to form thrombocytes?
Thrombocytes, also known as platelets, are formed from the cytoplasm of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. Megakaryocytes undergo a process called cytoplasmic fragmentation, where they produce small, disc-shaped cell fragments that are released into the bloodstream as thrombocytes.
What are cell fragments necessary in clotting?
Platelets are involved in blood clotting. They are also called thrombocytes and come from the bone marrow.
What is megakaryocytei?
Megakaryocyte is a bone marrow cell. This cell is responsible for the production of blood thrombocytes, also known as platelets. These platelets are necessary for blood clotting.
What is the blood cell required for blood clotting?
The blood cell that is required for the clotting process is a platelet. Platelets are also known as thrombocytes and their main function is to stop bleeding.
Do thrombocytes carry oxygen?
No thrombocytes are platlets used for blood clotting.
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thrombocytes
What is the smallest blood cells found in a human body?
Platelets, although technically speaking platelets (also known as thrombocytes) are not cells, but cell fragments produced by megakaryocytes. In terms of actual cells, it would be erythrocytes, or red blood cells.
Is thrombocytes a white blood cell?
Thrombocytes are platelets, derived from fragmentation of megakaryocytes. They are not white blood cells.
What are the functions of the disc shaped platelets in your blood?
Platelets (also known as Thrombocytes) circulate in the blood (of mammals) are are involved in hemostasis, leading to the formation of blood clots. Platelets also keep the body from bleeding in weaker structures including the nose and mouth.
Types of thrombocytes?
There are two types of thrombocytes....1.Platelets that is formed y fragmentation of megakaryocytes and 2.Spindle cells that are small oval structures witha central nuclei and appear related to white blood cells. They both help with the process of blood clotting.
Thrombocytes are commonly called?
Platelets
