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Type of blood clot
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thrombus
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Thrombus is a genus of demosponge belonging to the family Thrombidae .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, Modern Latin, from Greek thrombos "lump, piece, clot of blood, curd of milk."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context hematology pathology English) A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements; that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin [also: thrombi (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrombus \Throm"bus\, n.; pl. Thrombi . [NL., fr. Gr. ? a lump, a clot of blood.] (Med.) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation. A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue. ...
Usage examples of thrombus.
Cutter saw it by a smear of the particles it carried, a thrombus of feral air.
A thrombus had blocked off the right coronary artery, strangling the flow of blood to the muscle of the right ventricle.
I said, thinking that too much bee gunk went inside him and sent a sort of thrombus to clog his heart.
Longuet regards the condition of the blood in leukemia as the cause of such priapism, and considers that the circulation of the blood is retarded in the smaller vessels, while, owing to the great increase in the number of white corpuscles, thrombi are formed.