A small colourless disc-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting.
〔生理〕血小板。亦称THROMBOCYTE
Also called thrombocyte
Example sentencesExamples
For example, a person can receive only platelets, red blood cells, or a clotting factor.
After five or six days in hospital Kim was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia which is a failure of the bone marrow to produce blood cells and platelets.
Aspirin prevents heart disease by keeping the platelets in our blood from sticking together and forming a clot.
The animals also showed no significant decreases in white blood cells or platelets.
The bone marrow is responsible for formation of blood components such as the white blood cells and platelets.
Rhymes
statelet
Definition of platelet in US English:
platelet
nounˈpleɪtlɪtˈplātlit
Physiology
A small colorless disk-shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting.
〔生理〕血小板。亦称THROMBOCYTE
Also called thrombocyte
Example sentencesExamples
The bone marrow is responsible for formation of blood components such as the white blood cells and platelets.
After five or six days in hospital Kim was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia which is a failure of the bone marrow to produce blood cells and platelets.
For example, a person can receive only platelets, red blood cells, or a clotting factor.
Aspirin prevents heart disease by keeping the platelets in our blood from sticking together and forming a clot.
The animals also showed no significant decreases in white blood cells or platelets.