Is there a doctor in the house?

[Gazz]

Does anyone on here know the name of that stuff that comes out of your skin when you cut your arm, but it is NOT blood. It is clear a clear liquid but turns yellow/orange and goes hard after a while - you usually find it when you graze yourself.

Don't know if it is the same stuff that is inside a blister or not (because that stuff doesn't go hard).

Any idea what it is?

[CaNsA]

its teh ghey

goto a strip joint asap

[Ste]

Bad aids.

[charlie74]

plasma, its what the blood cells travel in, also what does the clotting of wounds

[pits]

Also known as Serum
https://medimoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/serum1.jpeg

It does more than clot and carry blood, getting fancy it has antibodies and shit in it that does stuff to things
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[hellkat]

Do NOT confuse it with the sort of serum that ladies put on their hair.
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[stinkwheel]

ITT. Bollocks, .

Plasma is the entire non-cellular part of whole blood. You can only get plasma if you treat whole blood with an anticoagulant as soon as you obtain it then spin it to remove the cells.

Serum is the remaining liquid part of blood which has already clotted. This is what is leaking out of your wound. Serum cannot clot further. The correct term for it would be a "serous transudate".

Neither contains platelets. They are part of the cellular material in plasma and are clotted together in the cellular layer in serum.

The blood sample in the picture above has seperated but has not been spun. The buffy coat is not visible.

This has been a public information message from a vet who handles serum and plasma samples on a daily basis and understands the differewnce between them. I am not a doctor, I am a surgeon.
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[swampy]

I have been told. Sorry Mr Stinkwheel.
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