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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 is the medical term meaning giant multinucleate cell from which fragments to form platelets?
Megakaryocytes. Fragments constantly released from giant bone marrow cells.
Why should platelets not be called cells?
Platelets are pieces of a larger cell called a megakaryocyte. They are not individual cells.
Are megakaryocytes a type of cell?
largest cell found in the bone marrow, and it forms platelets by shedding pieces of its cytoplasm (also called "cytoplasmic fragmentation").
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.
What does a platelet cell do?
There is nothing called platelet cell, they are actually cell fragments. The cell fragments are required for the clotting of blood when you are injured.
Cell fragments that help the blood to clot are called?
platelets .
When a cell engulfs large fragments of water it is called?
osmosis perhaps?
Is thrombocyte a white blood cell?
Thrombocytes are platelets, derived from fragmentation of megakaryocytes. They are not white blood cells.
What blood cell are antibodies produced by?
Antibodies are produced by a kind of white blood cell called a plasma cell.
What is cell fragments involved in clotting?
Some cell fragments that are involved in clotting are platelet that are from the bone marrow.
Is thrombocytes a white blood cell?
Thrombocytes are platelets, derived from fragmentation of megakaryocytes. They are not white blood cells.
