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- noun Plural form of
platelet .
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Examples
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The dual sided nature of the mica color platelets is what causes the shimmer and sheen of micas.
Lipstick Making - Day One Anne-Marie 2008
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Instead, they have elliptical structures called platelets utterly different from the clotting cells in our blood of the same name filled with microscopic air bubbles.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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These chemicals trigger a cascade of reactions with other factors in the blood, which ultimately activate special cells known as platelets.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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These chemicals trigger a cascade of reactions with other factors in the blood, which ultimately activate special cells known as platelets.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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These chemicals trigger a cascade of reactions with other factors in the blood, which ultimately activate special cells known as platelets.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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It sort of takes these things that are called platelets that cause blood clots and sort of inhibits them a little bit.
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The Merck doctor in charge of Cordaptive, John Paolini, says the data to-date show that Cordaptive has no effect on the blood-clot forming fragments called platelets that are key to the cardiovascular issue.
After a Revival, 2008
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It's also known that Arafat's five-hundred-page medical chart compiled by the French government during his stay at the French military hospital where he died did not give an underlying cause of death for the disintegration of his platelets, which is what killed him.
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It's also known that Arafat's five-hundred-page medical chart compiled by the French government during his stay at the French military hospital where he died did not give an underlying cause of death for the disintegration of his platelets, which is what killed him.
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It's also known that Arafat's five-hundred-page medical chart compiled by the French government during his stay at the French military hospital where he died did not give an underlying cause of death for the disintegration of his platelets, which is what killed him.
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