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Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Blood Physiological Phenomena > Hemostasis

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Hemostasis  

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Note

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

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • was in Cat E only 1963-75

In other languages

  • hemostaasi

    Finnish

  • haemostasis
  • verenvuodon tyrehdyttäminen
  • verenvuodon tyrehtyminen
  • Blodstillning

    Swedish

  • Hemostas

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006487

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