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1. Haemophilia
•A heredity disease
•The afflicted person lack certain clotting factors in his blood.
•Cause excessive bleeding even from small cut and can lead to death.
•They even may experience spontaneous internal bleeding without being injured
2. Thrombosis
•Formation of blood clot inside an unbroken blood vessel
•The clot - thrombus
•A blood clot moving in bloodstream - embolus
•Clot form in coronary artery can lead to heart attack
•A clot blocks blood flows to the brain can cause stroke
Exercise
1. Give two reasons why blood clotting is necessary when blood vessels are damage
following an injury.
A: To prevent blood loss when a person is injured and maintain blood pressure.
A: When the blood vessel damaged, the connective tissues will expose to the
blood. Platelets from the blood will stick to the connective tissue and release
clotting factors that make the platelet sticky. These platelet will aggregate and
form the platelet plug