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Blood: The Incomparable
Liquid of Life

Defects in the clotting system cause serious diseases that can be
treated only under special conditions, or sometimes not at all.
These miraculous entities possess very important features.
These saviors, consisting of just single cells, contain within

themselves special contractile proteins that permit expansion
and contraction inside themselves, which proteins serve to

Red blood cell
Thrombocyte

Thrombocytes are one of
Collagen in the crucial elements in
damaged the clotting process. In
skin
the wake of damage to
the body, a number of
a) Thrombocyte plug
essential and miraculous
changes in the thrombo-
cytes' structure take
place. The primary block-
ing of the wound, which
takes place with various
enzymes and proteins, is
especially vital. It is
impossible to remove any
of the elements that com-
prise this mechanism
b) Thrombocyte movement from the equation.

Thrombocyte
plug
Adnan
c) Thrombocytes collecting together
Oktar

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