bleeding and blood clotting

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Introduction
Significance of hemostasis
The hemostatic process
- Vascular function
- Platelets and their aggregation
- Blood coagulation
  - Intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation
  - The extrinsic pathway of blood coagulation
  - Biochemical basis of activation
- Inhibition of clotting
- Synthesis of blood-clotting proteins
Synthetic clotting products

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