platelet

IPA/ˈpleɪtlət/
KK[plˈetlət]IPA/ˈpleɪtlət/

platelet — noun

  • plateletsingular
  • plateletsplural

1. a tiny disc-shaped fragment in your blood that helps form a clot when a blood ve

1.名詞B2
釋義

a tiny disc-shaped fragment in your blood that helps form a clot when a blood vessel is damaged, stopping or preventing bleeding

例句

After the crash, the doctors checked Elena's platelet count because she was bleeding inside.

collocation: platelet count

Platelets are tiny disc-shaped fragments that travel in the blood and clump at a wound.

pattern: Platelets + verb (clump together, travel)

同義詞
  • thrombocyte

    the technical medical term for a platelet, used mainly in academic textbooks and research papers

用法筆記

Platelet is almost always used in the plural (platelets) when talking about the cells themselves. The singular appears most often in the compound phrase 'platelet count', which refers to the number of platelets in a volume of blood.

常見錯誤

❌Platelet helps the blood to thin.
✅Platelets help the blood to clot.
💡Platelets cause clotting (thickening), not thinning.
❌I need to check my blood platelet.
✅I need to get my platelet count checked.
💡Use 'platelet count' rather than 'blood platelet' in clinical contexts.