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Ivy bleeding time

Hematology A quantitative coagulation assay based on a standardized skin wound, which measures platelet and vascular responses to injury; ↑ in Bernard-Soulier disease, Glanzmann's thrombasthenia, platelet defects–eg, thrombocytopenia, storage pool disease, vascular defects–eg, Ehlers-Danlos disease, von Willebrand's disease
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