haemostasis
Natural or surgical stoppage of bleeding. In the natural mechanism, the damaged vessel contracts, restricting the flow, and blood platelets plug the opening, releasing chemicals essential to clotting.
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haemostasisNatural or surgical stoppage of bleeding. In the natural mechanism, the damaged vessel contracts, restricting the flow, and blood platelets plug the opening, releasing chemicals essential to clotting. |
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| Symptoms of chronic bronchitis, haemostatic factors, and coronary heart disease risk. The Army Medical Research Command and the American Red Cross have developed a haemostatic bandage that assists the clotting process and could conceivably prevent excessive loss of blood from deep cuts. However, thrombin-activatable plasminogen such as BB-10153 circumvents the physiological haemostatic mechanisms and selectively induces lysis of newly forming thrombi. |
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