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The main job of platelets, or thrombocytes, is blood clotting. Platelets are much smaller in size than the other blood cells. They group together to form clumps, or a plug, in the hole of a vessel to stop bleeding.

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Platelets are the components in the blood that helps clotting. Whenever you get a cut or bruise that starts to bleed, the platelets in your body help clot the cut so that the body does not lose alot of blood.

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Fibrinogen and platelets (Thrombocytes). The vitamin required for this to work properly is vitamin K.

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Platelets, although more of a fragment of a cell than a cell in its own right (fragments of megakaryocytes)

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A wound stops bleeding due to the process of clot formation called coagulation.

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Cells called platelets will stop bleeding.

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white blood cells

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Platelets

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