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Bleeding from a small cut in the skin

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 Bleeding from a small cut in the skin:

  1. Is normally diminished by local vascular spasm.
  2. Ceases within about five minutes in normal people.
  3. Is prolonged in severe factor VIII (antihaemophilic globulin) deficiency.
  4. Is greater from warm skin than from cold skin.
  5. Is reduced if the affected limb is elevated.
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Asmaa
2022-07-05
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A. True Due to the effects of tissue damage and serotonin on vascular smooth muscle.

B. True This is the upper limit of the normal ‘bleeding time’.

C. False Factor VIII increases clotting time, not bleeding time.

D. True Warmth dilates skin blood vessels.

E. True Intravascular pressure is reduced in an elevated limb.

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