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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clot
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood clot (=a mass formed when blood dries or sticks together)
▪ Blood clots in the legs are potentially fatal.
blood clots (=forms a mass and stops flowing)
▪ The blood should clot and stop the wound from bleeding.
clotted creamBritish English (= very thick cream that you cannot pour)
clotted cream
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
▪ When the platelet count in your blood drops too low, your blood does not clot as well as usual.
▪ To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Blood had clotted on the cuts on his back and on his arms.
▪ Some types of snake venom prevent blood from clotting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ireland had became a wound that would not clot.
▪ The stag's eyes were rolled back and its nostrils were clotted with blood.
▪ To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
▪ Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
▪ Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.
▪ This is the formation of a blood clot in a deep lying vein, which needs immediate medical treatment.
▪ The blockage is usually caused by a blood clot forming in an artery already narrowed by fatty atheroma.
▪ The operation had gone all right, but the aftermath was not good-culminating in a blood clot.
▪ But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died.
▪ They wanted to know why doctors didn't notice a swelling, caused by the blood clot, for two days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Blood fills the space and clots, capillaries grow into the clot and form granulation tissue.
▪ Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
▪ Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat, wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump.
▪ These are more clot specific than streptokinase.
▪ To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clot

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.

Clot

Clot \Clot\, v. t. To form into a slimy mass.

Clot

Clot \Clot\ (kl[o^]t), n. [OE. clot, clodde, clod; akin to D. kloot ball, G. kloss clod, dumpling, klotz block, Dan. klods, Sw. klot bowl, globe, klots block; cf. AS. cl[=a]te bur. Cf. Clod, n., Clutter to clot.] A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum. ``Clots of pory gore.''
--Addison.

Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
--Bacon.

Note: Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word, and are so used by early writers; but in present use clod is applied to a mass of earth or the like, and clot to a concretion or coagulation of soft matter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clot

Old English clott "a round mass, lump," akin to Dutch kloot "ball," Danish klods "a block, lump," German Klotz "lump, block;" probably related to cleat and clod.

clot

early 15c., from clot (n.). Of fluids from 1590s. Related: Clotted; clotting.

Wiktionary
clot

n. 1 A solidified mass of blood. 2 A solidified mass of any liquid. 3 A silly person. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To form into a clot or mass. 2 (context transitive English) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

WordNet
clot
  1. n. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid [syn: coagulum]

  2. [also: clotting, clotted]

clot
  1. v. change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" [syn: coagulate]

  2. cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state [syn: coagulate]

  3. turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber] [ant: homogenize, homogenize, homogenize]

  4. coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots" [syn: clog]

  5. [also: clotting, clotted]

Wikipedia
Clot
  1. Redirect Thrombus
Clot (disambiguation)

A clot is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis.

Clot may also refer to:

  • Blood Clot Boy, a figure in Native American folklore
  • Clot (Barcelona Metro), a Barcelona Metro station
  • El Clot-Aragó, the adjacent railway station
  • Clotted cream
  • In the United Kingdom, a foolish person
Clot (Barcelona Metro)

Clot is a station serving line 1 and line 2 of the Barcelona Metro.

The Line 1 station, opened in 1951, was built below Avinguda Meridiana between Carrer Aragó and Carrer València, and is arranged according to the Spanish solution with both side and central platforms. The lower-level Line 2 station is below Carrer València.

The Renfe regional and Rodalies commuter train station El Clot-Aragó is connected to Clot metro station via line 1. It offers connections to R1 and R2 Rodalies trains and to Ca2 regional trains.

Usage examples of "clot".

Then the militia ranks parted and there were three men adangle, clots of handflesh clamped to their throats.

About to go indoors, she noticed a clot of bees around the water dripping from the towels.

A few bees flew into the garage or over the back stoop, returning to the clot.

Here, he told us the story of his adventures, in a disjoint fashion punctuated by small yelps as I cleaned the injury, clipped bits of clotted hair away, and put five or six stitches into his scalp.

Other ridge areas, lower and brushier, were clotted thick with houses.

The chiclero was indubitably dead and was lying in a puddle of rapidly clotting blood.

Emperor had built with the ostensible reason of keeping him from having to look at the clots in Parliament, talking of this, and that.

However, he thought, if the official word is that all these clots were shot attempting to escape, how would my masters explain two suddenly alive Imperials?

The air souring and, like badness in milk, particles of matter coagulating from nothing, clots of rank aether aggregated into organising shape, and then there was a moving insectile thing made of scabbed nothing and sudden shade that twisted in the air as if suspended by thread and glimmered visible and invisible and then was unquestionably there, a hook-legged thing in the colours of rot, as large as a man.

It inspissated, fell in clots, mucal rain, and the sky and air was empty.

They were invisible, clots of air itself, Cutter realised, thrown down from the fight above, the torn-off meat of an air elemental discarded by an implacable air golem, the hands of a golem bitten through by a frantic luftgeist.

He considered them all dim-witted clots, whose only value was a willingness to die in place.

Tahn ship, hoping none of the Big Ugly Clots had altered their orbits, and the destroyers and probe ships ran infinitely variable patrols using a central plotting point cross-triangulated from the three nearest stars, and crossed fingers.

But he and the other team members were now temperance clots until they extracted.

Honoring my return and all and the victory over those clots who wanted to be my enemy.