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Coagulated

Coagulate \Co*ag"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coagulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Coagulating.] To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

Coagulated

Coagulated \Co*ag"u*la`ted\, a. Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled.

Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

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coagulated
  1. Subject to coagulation. v

  2. (en-past of: coagulate)

WordNet
coagulated
  1. adj. transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulate, curdled, grumous, grumose]

  2. changed into a solid mass [syn: solidified]

Usage examples of "coagulated".

The others remain dissolved during this process, but are coagulated by chemical agents and by heat.

Dissolved albumin, like that in milk, is curded, or coagulated, in the stomach.

Dusty webs had coagulated near the high ceiling and scales of green paint curled from the walls.

They began to take in things, like the small pool of blood that had coagulated under the curve of her spine.

Sitting beside it was a mug whose bottom was coated with a brown layer of coagulated coffee.

With impossible strength the man wrenched at the arm of coagulated stone and dislocated it, so the golem moved clumsily.

She would smear the liquid froth into careful position, slopping astonishing tones in suggestive patches and scabs, where it coagulated quickly into shape.

In some analytical pocket of his mind Isaac realized that these were not, could not be, grots of history coagulated and distilled into that sticky resin.

The air was warm, and smelt alternately lush and foul, as trees fruited and factory waste coagulated in thickening flows.

He was an old man whose body was collapsing under the oppressive weight of a rotting, wasting disease, whose mind was stiff with coagulated dream-emissions.

Before him, waves of blood washed over the reddened sand in black coagulated chunks.