How to Use platelet in a Sentence

platelet

noun

• This results in the low platelet count seen in these patients.
  — Mousumi Som, The Conversation, 3 May 2021
• That means less room for healthy white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets to form in the bone marrow.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2019
• The platelets get used up in these clots, leading to low platelet levels.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
• Red blood cells must be used within 42 days, and platelets must be used in five.
  — Kyra Haas, azcentral, 10 June 2019
• As blood and platelet donations drop, gas prices have reached all-time highs in the U.S.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 5 Aug. 2022
• Because of her low platelet count, her blood was unable to clot.
  — Shannon Shelton Miller, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2020
• So two of them come every 2 weeks and donate platelets which takes 2 hours.
  — Mariah Haas, PEOPLE.com, 1 May 2018
• So two of them come every 2 weeks and donate platelets which takes 2 hours.
  — Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 16 July 2024
• So two of them come every two weeks and donate platelets which takes two hours.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 4 May 2018
• This buildup of promyelocytes leads to a shortage of normal white and red blood cells and platelets in the body.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 12 Apr. 2023
• But if a person has plaque in their blood vessels, those platelets can stick to that plaque and cause blood clots.
  — Julia Landwehr, Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• The results showed that Tazmin had a low-platelet disorder.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2018
• Jung has seen the same happen in ferrets with a virus that causes loss of white blood cells called platelets.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2020
• Each platelet is only a few millionths of a metre across.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• She was treated with platelet infusions and a blood thinner, but had a bleed in her brain the next day.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
• Ohtani received a platelet-rich plasma injection to ease the strain and treat the injury.
  — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Blood and platelets can't be manufactured and must come from donors.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
• Urokinase comes along, carried on the surface of platelets and certain white blood cells, to finish the job.
  — Karen Weintraub, STAT, 6 Apr. 2018
• Blood is removed from one arm and then a centrifuge separates the platelets.
  — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Nasal steroid sprays, and jabs of platelet-rich blood plasma straight to the nose, could speed cellular healing.
  — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
• Eventually, the drug began to work, and my platelet count went down.
  — The Cut, The Cut, 5 Apr. 2018
• Jones was donating what’s known as platelets, tiny blood cells the body creates to clot and stop bleeding.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al, 25 July 2019
• Her platelets — clotting cells within the blood — were dwindling.
  — Kate Thayer, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
• The American Red Cross has put out an emergency call for blood and platelet donors.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
• Normally, someone with a low platelet count cannot form clots and bleeds as a result.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
• Plasma is liquid blood once blood cells and platelets are removed.
  — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
• All types are needed, but blood type O and platelets are what's most needed, said the American Red Cross.
  — Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020
• The clots seen with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine formed even in patients who had low platelet counts in their bloodstream.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• To do this, the team looked at the effects of adding erythritol to either whole blood or isolated platelets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Feb. 2023
• Vampire facials, also known as platelet-rich plasma microneedling procedures, involve taking blood from a patient’s arm and separating it into platelets and cells.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024