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A cell fragment with no nucleus, no chill, and one job: plug the leak now.
means A blood platelet — a tiny, nucleus-free cell fragment that clumps at wounds to start clotting.
from Built from Greek thrombos, 'clot' or 'lump' (the same root behind thrombosis), plus -cyte, from kytos, 'vessel' or 'hollow cell' — the generic Greek-derived suffix biologists bolt onto cell names. Coined in the scientific era of cell-naming, it's a plainly descriptive label: literally 'clot cell.'
- also called
- platelet, its more famous stage name
- lifespan
- about 8 to 10 days in blood
- origin
- shed off giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes
- scale
- 150 to 450 billion per liter of blood