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What are thrombocytes? How they are formed?

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Platelets, also called thrombocytes, are a component of blood whose function is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by initiating a blood clot. Platelets have no cell nucleus. They are fragments of cytoplasm of megakaryocytes of the bone marrow, and then enter the circulation.
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