Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coagulated mass, as of blood; a clot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coagulated mass, as curd, etc.; specifically, in medicine, ablood-clot.
- noun A substance that causes coagulation, as rennet; a coagulant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A mass of
coagulated material; aclot orcurd
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The coagulum is then salted and hand-molded into fist-sized balls.
Lebneh and Lebanese Cuisine Steve Carper 2008
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The coagulum, which is usually fibrinous, is known as a thrombus.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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The people call the coagulum that separates by the contact of the air, cheese.
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The people call the coagulum that separates by the contact of the air, cheese.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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At its centre is New Crobuzon, a coagulum of all the cities I love in reality but also very much in fiction.
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All fears, griefs, suspicions, discontents, imbonites, insuavities are swallowed up, and drowned in this Euripus, this Irish sea, this ocean of misery, as so many small brooks; 'tis coagulum omnium aerumnarum: which [2753] Ammianus applied to his distressed
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Residuum lac quod remanet post butirum permittunt acescere quantum acrius fieri potest et bulliunt illud, et coagulatur bulliendo, et coagulum illud desiccant ad solem, et efficitur durum sicut scoria ferri.
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Quod recondunt in saccis contra hyemem tempore hyemali quando deficit eis lac, ponunt illud acre coagulum, quod ipsi vocant gri-vt, in vtre, et super infundunt aquam calidam, et concutiunt fortiter donec illud resoluatur in aqua; quæ ex illo efficitur tota acetosa, et illam aquam bibunt loco lactis.
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Supplement gluten structure with tender protein coagulum; tenderize products; slow staling
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Ratio enim est: quod nullius animalis lac nisi cuius fetet venter non inuenitur coagulum.
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