Crossword clues for clotting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clot \Clot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Clotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Clotting.] To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
Wiktionary
n. Clotted material. vb. (present participle of clot English)
WordNet
See clot
n. the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid [syn: curdling, coagulation]
v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" [syn: coagulate]
cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state [syn: coagulate]
turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber] [ant: homogenize, homogenize, homogenize]
coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots" [syn: clog]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "clotting".
The chiclero was indubitably dead and was lying in a puddle of rapidly clotting blood.
A duct in the tube secretes saliva as she sucks, thereby increasing the bloodflow and keeping it from clotting.
Also rejected as blood donors are hemophiliacs who have received clotting factor concentrates.
Mahoney, and then Sten ran up the black flag, I clotting near nailed the door shut and took off to join you clowns.
Just one question, so I can shriek quietly and wake up the whole clotting town.
Either the portal was counterbalanced or else the woman had a Bhor or a heavy-worlder on standby just to open and shut the clotting thing, Cind thought.
PLF, and was behind some stupid bush carved to look like some clotting animal, and then running, scuttling low, unseen, using every bit of cover.
But those clotting pincers snapping on his faceplate made it hard to think.
I had to be content with cutting myself, and watching the blood flow down my arm, clotting with minutely judged alacrity, neither too quickly nor too slowly.
The flock was sometimes so dense that my own guardian vampire had no chance to defend her territory-but such moments did pass as my spiritual clotting factors cut in, never more than a little too late.
Like a ribbon of clotting blood, even the stones of the causeway radiated with pulsant light.
Deirdre was beginning to suck gently on my arm, the extra glands beneath her tongue secreting anticoagulants to counteract my own blood's accelerated clotting factor.
Only the red stain remained, clotting and crystalizing under the onslaught of the morning sun.
Like the scientist who, in analyzing the various clotting agents for blood treatments, found that oxalic acid and oxalic acid alone was, the active factor, Kidder isolated the accelerators and decelerators, the stimulants and soporifics, in every substance that ever undermined a man’s morality and/or caused a “noble experiment.
Yonder comas were no more than its last clotting and sparking before it entered the accretion disc.