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Results 1 - 10 of 10 for platelets
  1. How Does Blood Clot? Video From the National Institutes of Health (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)  
    ... narrow to prevent more blood from leaking out. Platelets travel to the site of the injury. The ... through your blood to the spleen, where many platelets are stored. The signals tell your spleen to ...
    https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/clotting-disorders/how-blood-clots - Videos
  2. What's Blood? Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... are entering the bloodstream to battle the infection. Platelets: Platelets (also called thrombocytes, say: THROM-buh-sytes) are ... the clotting process. When a blood vessel breaks, platelets gather in the area and help seal off ...
    https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/blood.html - Videos
  3. Blood Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... are entering the bloodstream to battle the infection. Platelets: Platelets (also called thrombocytes; pronounced: THROM-buh-sytes) are ... the clotting process. When a blood vessel breaks, platelets gather in the area and help seal off ...
    https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/blood.html - Videos
  4. Blood clotting Video 
    Ouch! Here's how platelets form clots. This small artery has a cut. Blood flowing past the cut includes red blood cells that carry oxygen, platelets that come from white blood cell fragments, and ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000011.htm -
  5. Blood Transfusions (For Teens) Video (Nemours Foundation)  
    ... White blood cells help the body fight infection. Platelets , the smallest blood cells, help to clot the ... need a transfusion of red blood cells or platelets. Other people might need plasma or only certain ...
    https://kidshealth.org/en/teens/transfusions.html - Videos
  6. Cardiovascular system Video 
    ... white blood cells and other solid elements called platelets. Platelets cause the blood to coagulate wherever an injury ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000023.htm -
  7. Blood Clots Video (American Society of Hematology)  
    ... excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured. Platelets (a type of blood cell) and proteins in ...
    https://www.hematology.org/education/patients/blood-clots - Videos
  8. Atherosclerosis Video 
    ... damage occurs to its inner lining, fat, cholesterol, platelets, and other substances may accumulate at a damaged ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000006.htm -
  9. Red blood cell production Video 
    ... cells, less than 1% white blood cells and platelets, and 55% plasma.
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000104.htm -
  10. Stroke Video 
    ... be made up of various substances such as platelets, elements in the blood that help it clot, ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/anatomyvideos/000123.htm -