You're so 'vein'.
A yellowish area within an artery that causes the internal surface to bulge into the lumen.
What is Plaque?
A foreign object obstructing the flow of blood.
What is Embolus?
Observable within a test tube: in an artificial environment.
What is In Vitro?
The termination of bleeding by mechanical or chemical means.
What is Hemostasis?
A common condition in which deposits of yellowing plaques containing cholesterol and lipid material form on the inside walls of the arteries.
What is Atherosclerosis?
The clustering or clumping of blood cells.
What is Aggregation?
A condition in which there is an abnormal increase in the number of platelets circulating in the blood.
What is Thrombocytosis?
Platelets degranulate, clump together, and adhere to the injured vessel in order to form a plug and inhibit bleeding.
What is Platelet Phase?
Inflammation of a vessel.
What is Vasculitis?
An auto immune connective tissue disease, affecting more women than men, which produces a high level of autoantibodies, indicating a defect in regulatory mechanisms.
What is Sytstemic Lupus Erythematosus?
Many specific coagulation factors are released and interact to form a fibrin meshwork, or blood clot. This clot seals off the damaged portion of the vessel.
What is Coagulation Phase?
This occurs when the bleeding has stopped. The entire clot retracts to heal torn edges by bringing them closer together.
What is Clot Retraction?
The continuous process of fibrin decomposition by fibrinolysin; the normal mechanism for the removal of small fibrin clots.
What is Fibrinolysis?
A product of the hydrolysis of adenosine triphosphate.
What is Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP)?