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When an injury involving bleeding occurs, your platelets stick to one another and help stop the flow by making scabs and begin healing the wound.
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Is a blood clot a circulatory disorder?
A blood clot can be a circulatory disorder, if it forms in an inappropriate place. For example, a blood clot in the large veins of the legs is a circulatory disorder. In the case of a blood clot that functions to stop a broken blood vessel, the clot is part of the normal human physiology.
what is the definition for thrombus?
A thrombus is a blood clot that forms in the circulatory system and remains where it forms rather than circulating in the blood.
What is trombose?
Thrombosis is when a blood clot forms inside a blood vessel. This causes a blockage in the circulatory system so that blood cannot pass through freely.
How would the circulatory system get involved if you had a puncture from a dirty rusty fence nail?
the blood will clot together which is called platelets
How can diet affect your circulatory system?
It starts to clot
What causes embolic stroke?
They take place when the heart's rhythm is changed for a number of different reasons, and blood clot formation occurs. This blood clot can move through the circulatory system until it blocks a blood vessel and stops the blood supply
Why do you have to take care of your circulatory system?
It is important to take care of your circulatory system, as it controls the body's temperature and pH levels, helps fight off diseases, distributed blood to different parts of the body, and maintains homeostasis.Because you depend on it to stay alive.
Which cellular fraction in blood helps to clot the blood?
Platelets are the cellular fraction in blood helps to clot the blood. This process is also known as coagulation.
What helps clot blood?
Platelets
Which helps clot the blood?
platelets
Who created the circulatory system?
If you believe in God, then God created the circulatory system in humans and other animals. If you believe in evolution, then evolution is responsible. No human created it. Trivia: If a blood vessel becomes blocked by a clot, the body can actually MAKE NEW blood vessels to get around the blockage!
What is found in blood which helps it clot?
plaque
