blood platelet

noun

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Definition of blood platelet

: platelet

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Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— detroit free press staff, Detroit Free Press, "There's a new tick in the U.S. and experts are worried," 10 May 2018
Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— detroit free press staff, Detroit Free Press, "There's a new tick in the U.S. and experts are worried," 10 May 2018
Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— detroit free press staff, Detroit Free Press, "There's a new tick in the U.S. and experts are worried," 10 May 2018
Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— detroit free press staff, Detroit Free Press, "There's a new tick in the U.S. and experts are worried," 10 May 2018
Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— detroit free press staff, Detroit Free Press, "There's a new tick in the U.S. and experts are worried," 10 May 2018
Among other innovations, Dr. Born was credited with developing a device that measured the speed of the potentially dangerous clumping of blood platelets.

— martin weil, Washington Post, "Gustav Born, British medical researcher who studied blood platelets, dies at 96," 5 May 2018
Thrombocytopenia means a low blood platelet count, according to the Mayo Clinic.

— CBS News, "East Asian tick species arrives in New Jersey, could carry dangerous virus," 24 Apr. 2018
Recently Cleveland Clinic researchers reported findings from several studies involving people and animals, that the gut microbiome directly changes the function of blood platelets, influencing the risk for heart attack and stroke.

— lauren delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Q&A: Healthy living with Ricky Ly of Tasty Chomps," 2 Apr. 2018

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