Platelet in a sentence as a noun

The results from the blood test are back, her platelet levels are extremely low.

Her spleen because thats where the platelets are being massacred, a word the patient used.

The routine is slowly coming back, blood test, results 17,000 platelets.

I got admitted to hospital and they found that my platelet count was dropping as well.

Cancer patients are a major use of blood platelet donations, if anyone is willing to take the time to donate them.

Basically, you don't want those platelets in that thrombus to ever become active again.

New platelets have to be produced in order to restore a normal clotting activity.

A couple of hours later the doctor had the results, her bone marrow which is what produces platelets and other blood components.

Not normal yet but the fact that her body was no longer killing the platelets and starting to produce them, was a great achievement.

Its explained that a blood transfusion will not be necessary, only a transfusion of platelets.

The medicine is given to start and activate the bone marrow into producing platelets.

Since platelets don't have a nucleus, the effect inhibitory effect is permanent in them.

You can actually donate platelets up to 24 times per year, and unlike donating whole blood, you don't feel tired or anything afterward.

Its not really about artificial blood but some platelet replacement based on liposomes.

A painful procedure that had to be done to evaluate the production of blood cells, more specifically platelets.

Unless you can pay for a 25000$ exotic platelet rich plasma transfusion or have a secret cache of bio-engineered body parts.

Therefore some donored plasma was needed, to have only a difference in the platelet concentraton.

Bad results, 3,000 platelets another transfusion is ordered.

Their artificialy synthesized liposomes could then replace the platelets in the study.

The low levels of platelets is so dangerous that internal bleeding is a very imminent possibility as well as bleeding in the brain.

Understanding this struggle is what gave birth to ThromboLUX, the first analyzer to provide a routine test for platelet activation status.

The bone marrow was so suppressed from the medicine she had been religiously taking for the past 18 months, that her body has stopped producing platelets altogether.

... never mind the other potentially adverse effects of platelet activation.

If you think this is abstract, I am about to send an email to my surgical colleagues because we'll be out of the most precious donation tonight at midnight: platelets.

That idea is usually followed-up with the additional theory that CV-19 causes inflammation and high platelet activity, clogging up small blood vessels and producing most of the major effects that are observed.

LightIntegra strives to give patients the best possible chance for platelet transfusion success by ensuring all hematology-oncology patients receive non-activated platelets.

Platelet definitions

noun

tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting

See also: thrombocyte