Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See platelet.
- n. A nucleated, spindle-shaped cell of nonmammalian vertebrates that promotes blood clotting.
Wiktionary
- n. hematology, cytology platelet
WordNet 3.0
- n. tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting
Etymologies
- thrombo- + -cyte (Wiktionary)
Examples
“See also q arm. pharyngeal transfer: phase in which food is moved past the airway to the esophagus. pharynx: the throat. phenotype: the visible expression of a gene. platelet: blood cell which assists in blood clotting — also called a thrombocyte. pneumonia: lung inflammation as a result of infection.”
“[Nyoman Karmun, Pecatu Village Resident]: If the thrombocyte level decreases in 3 days after the blood is drawn, then it is not a dengue fever.”
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“A previously developed risk scoring model for prediction of VTE that included clinical (tumour entity and body-mass-index) and laboratory (hemoglobin level, thrombocyte - and leucocyte-count) parameters was expanded by incorporating two biomarkers, soluble”
“Slide 44: Clinical Indications Side Effects • Quilty et al. (1993) - leuko - and thrombocyte counts demonstrate an average decrease of 30-40\% compared to baseline values after the injection of Sr-89 200 MBq.”
“Inhibit thrombocyte function, inhibits apoptosis in tumour (insulinoma) cells and protein degradation (7) 6.”
“With some NSAIDs, there exists the potential for increased bleeding time due to interference with thrombocyte aggregation.”
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“Lin HF, Traver D, Zhu H, Dooley K, Paw BH, et al. (2005) Analysis of thrombocyte development in CD41-GFP transgenic zebrafish.”
“Pecatu Village Resident]: If the thrombocyte level decreases in 3 days after the blood is drawn, then it is not a dengue fever.”
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-cyte, cyt-
denoting a mature cell
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