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Bookmark or Share- What Are Platelets and Why Are They Important?Platelets are the cells that circulate within our blood and bind together when they recognize damaged blood vessels.
- What Are Platelets? Function & Anatomy - Cleveland ClinicPlatelets are cell fragments and the smallest component of your blood. Their primary job is to stop the bleeding if you’re injured. If a blood vessel is damaged, platelets cluster together to form a plug first and then a clot to stop the blood loss. Common conditions involving platelets include thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis.
- Platelet count blood test: Normal, low, and high valuesPlatelets prevent bleeding and help wounds heal. Both high and low levels may indicate cancer, anemia, and autoimmune disorders. Learn more about these levels here.
- Thrombocytopenia (low platelet count) - Symptoms and causesPlatelets (thrombocytes) are colorless blood cells that help blood clot. Platelets stop bleeding by clumping and forming plugs in blood vessel injuries. Thrombocytopenia might occur as a result of a bone marrow disorder such as leukemia or an immune system problem.
- Platelet - WikipediaPlatelets or thrombocytes (from Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos) 'clot' and κύτος (kútos) 'cell') are a blood component whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby initiating a blood clot. [1]
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