How to Use platelet in a Sentence

platelet

noun
  • This measures the amounts of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
    — Doru Paul, Health, 10 Jan. 2025
  • This results in the low platelet count seen in these patients.
    — Mousumi Som, The Conversation, 3 May 2021
  • Because of her low platelet count, her blood was unable to clot.
    — Shannon Shelton Miller, Glamour, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Sizemore's routine blood test came back with a low platelet count.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The platelets get used up in these clots, leading to low platelet levels.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Blood is composed of plasma, red cells, white blood cells and platelets.
    — Stephen Henry, M.d., Clifton Page, M.d., and Thomas Best, M.d., Ph.d., miamiherald, 13 June 2017
  • So two of them come every two weeks and donate platelets which takes two hours.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 4 May 2018
  • Note that platelets have a shelf life of just five days, while whole blood can be stored for up to six weeks.
    — Lauren Oster, Health.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Red blood cells must be used within 42 days, and platelets must be used in five.
    — Kyra Haas, azcentral, 10 June 2019
  • 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
  • Plasma is liquid blood once blood cells and platelets are removed.
    — Alison Steinbach, azcentral, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Tests confirmed that her red blood cells and platelets were nearly normal.
    — Lisa Sanders, M.d., New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Blood and platelets can't be manufactured and must come from donors.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 12 June 2019
  • The clot, or thrombus, is made of fibrin, platelets, white blood cells and some red blood cells.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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 2 weeks and donate platelets which takes 2 hours.
    — Mariah Haas, PEOPLE.com, 1 May 2018
  • Clotting factors, which are proteins in the blood, work with platelets to form clots.
    — Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Her platelets — clotting cells within the blood — were dwindling.
    — Kate Thayer, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • There's also a need for plasma and for platelets, which only have a five-day shelf life.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • Blood is removed from one arm and then a centrifuge separates the platelets.
    — Lisa Maria Garza, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Normally, someone with a low platelet count cannot form clots and bleeds as a result.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Eventually, the drug began to work, and my platelet count went down.
    — The Cut, The Cut, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The under-surface is covered in jagged ice crystals called platelet ice.
    — John D. Sutter, CNN, 14 July 2017
  • Platelet lysates are made from the platelets that can be extracted from human blood samples.
    — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 11 July 2017
  • Instead, the blood work showed that his platelet count was dangerously low.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • This buildup of promyelocytes leads to a shortage of normal white and red blood cells and platelets in the body.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Jones was donating what’s known as platelets, tiny blood cells the body creates to clot and stop bleeding.
    — Christopher Harress | [email protected], al, 25 July 2019

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