What is hemostasis?

A. the maintenance of relatively stable conditions in the internal environment
B. the prevention or stoppage of blood loss
C. a disease in which blood clot formation is impaired
D. a protein inside red blood cells that binds oxygen with high affinity
E. the set point for normal arterial blood pressure


B

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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