Stopping the Bleeding in the Human Body

Stopping the Bleeding in the Human Body
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Stopping the Bleeding in the Human Body
Blood circulates in the human body through tube-like vessels called the veins, arteries, and capillaries. Sometimes, these vessels get injured, and the blood spill out. The injuries can happen on the surface of the skin through cuts that cause a bruise. The injuries may also occur internally, and blood leaks inside the body. In both cases, the body works hard to stop the damage and repair the injured tissues through three biological steps.
The first step is that the injured blood vessels get smaller. This ensures that less blood floor through it and subsequently less of it leaks outside the vessel (Hemophilia of Georgia, n.d.). The vessel muscles are responsible for the thinning of the vessel walls. After thinning the vessels, a platelet plug is made.
The next step to stopping the bleeding is the making of a platelet plug. This is a temporary patch that forms over the leak. To form a good platelet plug, there must be adhesion, activation and secretion, and aggregation. Adhesion of blood platelets inv...