Blood clotting is natural mechanism to stop you bleeding from a cut. It is triggered by the body when you have a cut to stop you from bleeding too much. A DVT is a blood clot that forms within a deep leg vein.
Deep Vein Thrombosis and Legs in Plaster Casts
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