Table 7 Road repair analogy used to explain hemostasis
Your body | Road repair |
|---|---|
Blood vessels | Roads |
Blood vessels wall | Road surface |
Blood flow | Traffic flow |
Platelets | Construction workers |
Clotting factors | Road patch |
Chemical signals | Radio communication used by construction workers. They use radios signals to request for materials needed to fix the damaged road. |
Fibrin | Fibrin |