platelet
A small colorless disk-shaped particle found in the blood of mammals, which plays an important role in the formation of blood clots.
A kind of
- living substance
Related words
- giant platelet disorder
- sticky platelet syndrome
- platelet function test
- Harris platelet syndrome
- proplatelet
- plateletpheresis
- antiplatelet
- nanoplatelet
- nonplatelet
- gray platelet syndrome
- intraplatelet
- interplatelet
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This definition is adapted from “platelet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.