How the Body Works : Blood Clotting

Blood Clotting

Blood clotting takes place in a sequential process to prevent excessive blood loss from a wound. Normally, circulating blood contains red cells, platelets, plasma-clotting factors and fibrinogen, a soluble protein. Tissue-clotting factors lie trapped within cells surrounding each blood vessel. When an injury occurs, blood escapes from the broken vessel. Platelets aggregate at the site and partially plug the break. Tissue-clotting factors are released. The interaction of the platelets with plasma and tissue-clotting factors results in the conversion of fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin threads, which form a mesh across the break in the vessel wall. Blood cells and platelets become trapped in the mesh. The semisolid mass shrinks and a yellow fluid, serum, is pushed out, leaving the familiar dark red clot.

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[sidewaysjim]

If a book could speak, this is how I imagine it would sound like.

[mallamoozoo]

What's so intelligent about it when it fails - eg. clots causing strokes and heart attacks? Or cell regeneration failing and becoming cancerous?

Agreed - it's amazing that organisms function so well when they're so complex - but it's far from perfect.

[ossielmais]

graphics are aweful tbh...

[DaniaOMGWania]

so vague :(

[TheeKingslayer]

Remember every one.. listen! this is important - this is words from our god the allmighty Richard Dawkins - "We have to constantly remind ourselves that life is not designed, even thou it looks like it" 

[FuchanIbuki]

@mallamoozoo Actually that's quite contrary. Blood clots causing strokes and heart attacks are caused more likely by them human treating their body unhealthily rather than the human body acting on its own to hurt itself. It's true some bodies have dysfunctional blood systems and cause the same formalities but that's usually because of a problem that was inflicted upon a young child while in the womb of the mother and doesn't take place until the formality begins functioning wrong.

[britainfan4lyf]

before i write i biology test i go onto youtube and *wham* i have ebough knowlwdge to be a doctor. i you ask me, teaching is a pointless boring mwthod of getting the message through. i learn more from whatching these videos on youtube in 5 minutes than i do listening to the teacher for 2 hours

[Questionable23]

his voice is so motivational

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[0987654321284]

@mallamoozoo clots can't couse that. you are thinking about clogs

[Rexmanghay]

c m n u tube jus type (rexmanghay)

[roadie50]

Thanks - CS Lewis has been a favorite author with some deep stuff. Think I commented a lil sloppy... was trying to say I had to pick faith without proof in order to believe something.

Thanks