The formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel

Usage examples of thrombosis.

Some contained thromboses from the scraping, but that was the only difference.

Strokes, thromboses, blood clots, aneurysms, Miles supposed was what this translated to.

Cyril Wycliff, as I understand it, is being treated for thrombosis under your direction.

Moreover, Keyes has already cured other cases of thrombosis through the use of your injections.

When you pronounced his ailment as thrombosis and stated frankly that it carried the danger of sudden death, my father sent for Mr.

This was a brief obituary notice which referred to the death of Cyril Wycliff, stating that his demise had been the result of thrombosis, from which he had been ailing.

A new piece of capillary dilation software just added to the thrombosis AI needs a final checkout before we can start programming it for work.

As I said, what you will most likely die from is thrombosis, a blood clot lodging in your brain or heart.

He explained about vasoconstriction of the coronary vessels, something like that brought about by a lifetime of gorging on butter, or a thrombosis.

Weak heart, coronary thrombosis, high blood pressure, chronic bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis all the rest of it.

Apart from the usual faithful companions of old age, Arthritis, Angina, Thrombosis, Prostate Cancer, there now appeared illnesses such as Poliakoff's Syndrome where the sufferer's body fat became so tired and worn out that it caught fire and burned from within like a fire-bombed council house, there was Clutterbuck's Disease in which the excessively old person's bones calcified to such a degree that they more or less turned into a pillar of salt, and the memory loss that occurred in those of seventy, eighty, ninety, was replaced by memory gain in those of one hundred and thirty, forty, fifty.

I suppose they were thinking of “Journeys end in lovers meeting,” but not everyone could be expected to get the reference: it might have come across as too sinister, a building all entrances but no exits, reeking of aneurysms and thromboses and emptied bottles of sleeping pills and gun wounds to the head.

Strokes, thromboses, blood clots, aneurysms, Miles supposed was what this translated to.

There'll be a contraction of the bladder, bone fractures that won't mend, inflammation of the kidneys, liver, spinal cord and heart, bronchopneumonia, thrombosis, cancer and aplastic anaemia which will lead to subcutaneous haemorrhaging - in other words you'll bleed to death under the skin.

You take a fatty who radically increases his level of exercise, and what the guy usually gets is the booby prize - a good solid class-two thrombosis.