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that seals off the area of the blood vessel that's damaged.
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Blood now stays within
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your circulatory system, the bleeding stops.
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That seal that gets made
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is a chemically cross-linked version of fibronectin,
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and you know it as a blood clot.
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You cut yourself, you see a clot later,
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it looks red because--it looks red but it's solid.
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It looks red because there's blood cells trapped in it,
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red blood cells trapped in it.
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It's solid because the basis of it
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is this cross-linked network of proteins.