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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; a clot or curd

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

[Latin coāgulum, coagulator, rennet, from cōgere, to condense : co-, co- + agere, to drive; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]

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