Hemostasis
Hemostasis or haemostasis is a process to prevent and stop bleeding, meaning to keep blood within a damaged blood vessel (the opposite of hemostasis is hemorrhage).
It is the first stage of wound healing. This involves coagulation, blood changing from a liquid to a gel. Intact blood vessels are important to moderating blood' s tendency to form clots.
The word hemostasis (, sometimes) uses the combining forms hemo- and -stasis, New Latin from Ancient Greek aimo- haimo- (akin to aima haima)," blood" , and stasis stasis," stasis" , yielding" motionlessness or stopping of blood" .
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