Thrombus
blood clot
A thrombus, or blood clot stops bleeding. It keeps blood inside a damaged blood vessel, and stops the hemorrhage.
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Other names | Blood clot |
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Diagram of a thrombus (blood clot) that has blocked a blood vessel valve | |
Specialty | Vascular surgery |
A blood clot is the final product of the coagulation. There are aggregated platelets and red blood cells. Together with fibrin they form a plug, and stop the bleeding.[1]
The substance making up a thrombus is sometimes called cruor.
A thrombus is a healthy response to injury to prevent bleeding, but can be harmful in thrombosis, when clots block blood flow through otherwise normal blood vessels.[2][3]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Thrombus: what is it, the mechanism and causes of formation, symptoms". 29 June 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Kumar, Vinay; Abbas, Abul; Aster, Jon (2014). Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (9th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier. ISBN 9781455726134. OCLC 879416939.
- ↑ "Venous thromboembolism (VTE) | McMaster Pathophysiology Review". www.pathophys.org. Retrieved 2018-11-03.