Assertion: arteriosclerosis | /r/Causes | damage
Facets:
value: to rbcs
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Arteriosclerosis reduces blood supply by narrowing the lumen of the vessel, causes damage to RBCs as they squeeze past the plaque and crash into it (which triggers an immune response which MAY be responsible for the presence of WBCs and accumulation of fibrin and fibrin-bound platelets), and can completely block a downstream vessel if a piece of the plaque breaks away.