Blood clotting

Blood Clotting
When blood vessels are cut or damaged, the loss of blood from the system must be stopped before shock and possible death occur. This is accomplished by solidification of the blood, a process called coagulation or clotting.
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blood clotting: the process in which platelets adhere to the walls of damaged blood vessels, setting off a series of processes leading to the formation of a patchy mesh at the injury site.
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albumin
blood clotting factors
immunoglobulins (antibodies)
hormones
various other proteins
various electrolytes (mainly sodium) ...
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An X-linked recessive genetic disease, caused by a mutation in the gene for clotting factor VIII (hemophilia A) or clotting factor IX (hemophilia B), which leads to abnormal blood clotting. Herbicide.
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thromboxanes A class of molecules derived from arachidonate and involved in platelet aggregation during blood clotting. Thromboxanes have a common feature of a 6-membered, ether-containing ring.
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They carry chemicals essential to blood clotting. Platelets survive for 10 days before being removed by the liver and spleen. There are 150,000 to 300,000 platelets in each milliliter of blood.
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Every human cell (except for red blood cells and the platelets that are critical to normal blood clotting and wound healing) contains a discrete nucleus that has within the roughly 6 feet of a special chemical called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
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an enzyme that initiates blood clotting, and transforms prothrombin into thrombin in the presence of calcium ions; thromboplastin
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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The daughters of Queen Victoria, the princesses Alice and Beatrix, were asymptomatic carriers of the X-linked hemophilia gene (more precisely, an abnormal allele of a gene necessary to produce one of the blood clotting factors).
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A chemical used to prevent blood clotting. Examples: EDTA, heparin, sodium citrate, sodium oxalate.
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anticoagulant Substance that prevents blood clotting.
anticodon A sequence of three bases on transfer RNA that pairs with codons of messenger RNA to position amino acids during protein synthesis.
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anticoagulant. A substance that prevents blood clotting, resulting in internal hemorrhaging; may be used as a rodenticide.
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A small enucleated blood cell important in blood clotting; derived from large cells in the bone marrow.
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