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What is the smallest formed elements in the blood and they play important role in the blood clotting?
Platelets, or thrombocytes, are the smallest formed element in the blood. Made of cell fragments, platelets are part of the blood clotting process. Non-formed clotting factors also are critical to blood clotting.thrombocytes
Which of the formed elements aids in clotting?
platelets
What are the types of formed elements and their functions?
The three types of formed elements areRed Blood Cell (RBC) : carry oxygenWhite Blood Cell (WBC) : phagocytes bacteriaPlatelets : blood clotting.
What is the smallest form element in the blood and they play an important role in blood clotting?
Platelets, or thrombocytes, are the smallest formed element in the blood. Made of cell fragments, platelets are part of the blood clotting process. Non-formed clotting factors also are critical to blood clotting.thrombocytes
Which vitamin plays an important role in blood clotting?
A formed element present in the blood called platelets are essential in blood clotting. Also, chemicals known as clotting factors circulate and are activated by an injury.
When a finger is pricked the blood will stop flowing shortly because of the action of the formed elements called?
Platelets, or thrombocytes, are the formed element of the blood that assist in blood clotting. Platelets are cell fragments, unlike the other formed elements (white blood cells and red blood cells).
What do the formed elements of the blood include and which are cell fragments?
The formed elements of blood are red blood cells (erythrocytes), white blood cells (leukocytes), and platelets (thrombocytes). Thrombocytes are the formed element that is actually a cell fragment. Platelets are important in blood clotting.
What are the functions of the formed elements of blood?
The three types of formed elements areRed Blood Cell (RBC) : carry oxygenWhite Blood Cell (WBC) : phagocytes bacteriaPlatelets : blood clotting.
What is the method used to break up compounds into the elements that formed it?
chemical process
the process of blood clotting?
When you cut yourself you bleed. Before long, platelets help the blood to thicken and the bleeding stops. The thickened blood has formed a clot. without clotting, blood would be lost and pathogens would enter.
How are heavier elements formed from hydrogen within the core of a star?
by the process of nuclear fusion
What is the smallest formed element in the blood?
Thrombocytes are the smallest formed elements in the blood. In my Medical Terminology book, it says "The smallet formed elements found in blood are platelets. Although they are sometimes called thrombocytes, they are not true cells, as the term erroneously suggests, but merely fragments of cells."
