Phenomena and Processes

Hemostasis

The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of BLOOD from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements (eg. ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION), and the process of BLOOD COAGULATION.

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The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of BLOOD from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements (eg. ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION), and the process of BLOOD COAGULATION.

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  • Hemostases

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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.

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note Cat G, a physiol process; differentiate from HEMOSTATIC TECHNIQUES and specifics, Cat E; coord HEMOSTASIS in diseases with disease /blood, not /physiopathol

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was in Cat E only 1963-75

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  1. G09.188.390w

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WH 305

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hemostasis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006487. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006487
  2. Hemostasis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemostasis
  3. Hemostasis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q487937