Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
- noun A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
- noun A compact group.
- intransitive verb To form into a clot or clots; coagulate.
- intransitive verb To cause to form into a clot or clots.
- intransitive verb To fill or cover with or as if with clots.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal variant of
clote . Compareclot-bur . - To coagulate, as soft or fluid matter, into a thick inspissated mass; become concrete: as, milk or blood clots.
- To form into clots.
- To cause to coagulate; make or form into clots.
- To cover with clots; mat together by clots, as of blood.
- noun A clod.
- noun A hill.
- noun A dull, stupid man; a clodpoll.
- noun A concrete or coagulated mass of soft or fluid matter: as, a clot of blood or of cream.
- noun A clump.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
- transitive verb To form into a slimy mass.
- noun A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
solidified mass ofblood . - noun A
silly person. - verb intransitive To form into a clot or
mass - verb transitive To cause to clot or form into a
mass
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
- verb change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
- verb cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
- verb turn into curds
- verb coalesce or unite in a mass
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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When the clot is dissolved or no further improvement can be made, the medication is stopped and the catheter is removed.
Thrombolysis 2010
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The final step is fibrin clot formation, in which a sticky, thread-like substance called fibrin forms a tight mesh over the platelet plug, binding it together.
Hemophilia: stopping the bleeding ewillett 2008
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In addition, elinogrel is being developed as both an intravenous drug and a pill, allowing it to be used for both patients with immediate blockages as well as for long-term clot prevention, said Mardi Dier, Portola's chief financial officer.
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With CSVT the clot is in a vein that is carrying blood from the brain back to the heart.
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This moving clot is often called an embolus or embolism.
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Because if she did, it'd look like a heart attack or some brain clot, and nobody would ever know the abyss of horror I had in the last moments of a life ended prematurely because I thought I was too smart to believe in ghosts.
Lurking, Fluidly 2006
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