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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, Modern Latin, from Greek thrombos "lump, piece, clot of blood, curd of milk."
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 the body.
WordNet
n. a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin
[also: thrombi (pl)]
Wikipedia
A thrombus, colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis. There are two components to a thrombus: aggregated platelets that form a platelet plug, and a mesh of cross-linked fibrin protein. The substance making up a thrombus is sometimes called cruor. A thrombus is a healthy response to injury intended to prevent bleeding, but can be harmful in thrombosis, when clots obstruct blood flow through healthy blood vessels.
Mural thrombi are thrombi that adhere to the wall of a blood vessel. They occur in large vessels such as the heart and aorta, and can restrict blood flow but usually do not block it entirely. They appear grey-red with alternating light and dark lines (known as lines of Zahn) which represent bands of fibrin (lighter) with entrapped white blood cells and red blood cells (darker).
Thrombus is a genus of demosponge belonging to the family Thrombidae.
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.