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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of coagulum.

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Examples

  • Otherwise coagula of blood will be retained in the incisions and inflammatory ulcers will arise from them.

    On Ulcers 2007

  • In a recent incised wound inflicted during life there is copious hæmorrhage, the cellular tissue is filled with blood, the edges of the wound gape and are everted, and the cavity of the wound is filled with coagula.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • It seems to me very probable that these isolated sporangia are identical with the hyaline coagula so accurately described by Frerichs, who has observed them in the blood of patients dying of intermittent fevers.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

  • The patients of his colleague did well, except one, where he assisted to remove some coagula from the uterus; she was attacked in the same manner as those whom he had attended, and died also.

    The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever 1909

  • His scalp was shaved, the coagula and debris removed, and among other portions of bone was a piece of the anterior superior angle of each parietal bone and a semicircular piece of the frontal bone, leaving an opening 3 1/2 inches in diameter.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • His scalp was shaved, the coagula and debris removed, and among other portions of bone was a piece of the anterior superior angle of each parietal bone and a semicircular piece of the frontal bone, leaving an opening 3 1/2 inches in diameter.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart-clots and firm coagula were universally present.

    Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887

  • In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart-clots and firm coagula were universally present.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart clots and fibrous coagula were universally present.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • In cases of hospital gangrene of the extremities, and in cases of gangrene of the intestines, heart clots and fibrous coagula were universally present.

    Andersonville — Volume 2 John McElroy 1887

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