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Section II. FUNCTION OF THE BLOOD IN TRAUMA-HEMOSTASIS
1-4 INTRODUCTION
Hemostasis (the arrest of bleeding) has three separate mechanisms--platelet clumping (agglutination), contracting of blood vessels, and forming a fibrin clot.
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