blood platelet

1. 1.

   tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting

   Synonymsplateletthrombocyte

   Broaderprotoplasm

Questions about blood platelet

What does blood platelet mean?

blood platelet means "tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting".

What is another word for blood platelet?

Close synonyms include platelet, thrombocyte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blood platelet a common word?

blood platelet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.