Organ or Tissue Function
hemostasis Audio
he·mo·sta·sis [ hi-mos-tuh-sis, hee-muh-stey-sis, hem-uh- ]
Subclass of:
Blood Physiological Phenomena
Definitions related to hemostatic function:
  • (hemostasis) Process of arresting blood flow or bleeding, either physiologically by vasoconstriction and coagulation or by mechanical or surgical means.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (hemostasis) The arrest of bleeding, either by the natural processes of vasoconstriction and coagulation or by surgical means.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (hemostasis) The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of BLOOD from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements (eg. ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION), and the process of BLOOD COAGULATION.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (hemostasis) The stopping of bleeding (loss of body fluid) or the arrest of the circulation to an organ or part.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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