noun
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A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
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A solidified mass of any liquid.
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A silly person.
verb
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To form a clot or mass.
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To cause to clot or form into a mass.
Examples of clot in a Sentence
He underwent surgery to remove a blood clot on the brain.
The salts of iron quickly cause coagulation of the blood, and the clot plugs the bleeding vessels.
Vitamin K helps the blood coagulate or clot.
And he found that all albinoes do not fail to clot when intravascularly injected with nucleoproteids.
Smoking may increase the chances of blood clot, heart attack, or stroke.
But about 7% showed an exceedingly limited coagulation, in which the clot was colourless and flocculent, and confined to the heart.
Doctors have known for 60 years that prolonged immobility increases the risk of suffering a blood clot.
Although the build-up of coronary atheroma is slow, a clot can occur at any time.
National targets state that if a patient has a heart attack they must receive clot busters within a specified time after arriving at hospital.
Next, blood coagulation rapidly replaces this unstable platelet plug with a stable fibrin clot.
These drugs will help keep the clot from increasing in size and help prevent pulmonary embolism.
People with an irregular heartbeat may be given warfarin, which reduces the blood's tendency to clot.
This clot can completely block the blood flow through the coronary artery, causing a myocardial infarction.
This review examines the roles of the major fibrinolytic factors involved in clot lysis.
This has considerable advantages in maintaining the blood clot and encouraging new bone growth to maintain the alveolar bony ridge.
Fibrin creates a number of threads that make the plasma sticky, enabling a clot to form.
A blood clot was found and was rushed back to bed and hooked up with blood thinners.
Drugs to dissolve the thrombus - thrombolytic drugs - may be given during the first 48 hours after formation of the blood clot.
The blockage of the artery is usually caused by a blood clot (called a thrombus by doctors) or an embolus.
By embolism is meant the more or less sudden stoppage of a vessel by a plug of solid matter carried thither by the current of the blood; be it a little clot from the heart or, what is far more pernicious, an infective fragment from some focus of infection in the body, by which messengers new foci of infection may be scattered about the body.
Omega 3 fats are a particular type of polyunsaturated fat that reduce the stickiness of blood, making it less likely to clot.
This can block the production of thromboxane which increases the stickiness of red blood cells and makes them more likely to clot.
It is a condition in which a small blood clot or thrombus forms mainly in the deep veins of the legs.
It is this aggregation of platelets which triggers the cascade of reactions leading to blood clot formation (thrombosis).
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked, usually by a blood clot formed on the surface of plaques inside the coronary arteries.
In children, blockages may be caused by a blood clot, injury to the artery, or rarely in children, atherosclerosis (build-up of fatty deposits on the blood vessel walls).
A cerebral thrombosis is a blood clot that develops at the clogged part of the blood vessel.
A cerebral embolism is a blood clot that travels to the clogged blood vessel from another location in the circulatory system.
A transient ischemic attack (TIA), also called a "mini stroke," is characterized by a short-term blood vessel obstruction or clot that tends to resolve itself quickly, usually within 10-20 minutes, or up to 24 hours.
Anticoagulant medications, including heparin or warfarin and low-dose aspirin, may be used to reduce the risk of blood clot formation.
Sometimes urgent surgery is necessary soon after the child is admitted to the emergency room to remove a blood clot and restore oxygen flow to the brain tissue.
It may be a gas bubble, a blood clot, a fat globule, a mass of bacteria, or other foreign body that forms somewhere else and travels through the circulatory system until it gets stuck.
This opening can allow a blood clot from one part of the body to travel through the flap and up to the brain, causing a stroke.
The platelet plug then binds coagulation proteins to form a clot that stops bleeding.
Coagulation tests, including clotting time, will be performed to determine the ability of the child's blood to form a clot.
Clotting factors-Substances in the blood, also known as coagulation factors, that act in sequence to stop bleeding by triggering the formation of a clot.
The cloth absorbs blood and allows clot formation.
The clot should not be disturbed, so if blood soaks through the cloth, another cloth should be placed directly on top rather than replacing the original cloth.
Once the wound has been cleared of foreign material and washed, it should be gently blotted dry, with care not to disturb the blood clot.
Children who have had a valve replaced must take an anticoagulant medication, usually warfarin (Coumadin), in order to minimize the possibility of a clot forming on the prosthetic valve.
A stroke may be caused by a blood clot or by hemorrhage due to a burst blood vessel.
If the cardiac catheterization indicates that a closure device would be an effective treatment, an anticoagulant medication, is given intravenously to reduce the risk of blood clot.
This medication reduces the risk of blood clot formation around the closure device.
It can also occur if a thrombosis, or blood clot, forms in the vein at the IV catheter site.
Thrombosis-The formation of a blood clot in a vein or artery that may obstruct local blood flow or may dislodge, travel downstream, and obstruct blood flow at a remote location.
The clot or thrombus may lead to infarction, or death of tissue, due to a blocked blood supply.
The surgeon may have to open a section of skull (craniotomy) to remove a large clot and/or to tie off the bleeding vein.
A burst blood vessel in the brain followed by uncontrolled bleeding (intracerebral hemorrhage) can cause a fetal stroke, or a clot (embolism) can obstruct a cerebral blood vessel.
Coagulopathy-A disorder in which blood is either too slow or too quick to coagulate (clot).
Both closed and penetrating head injuries can cause swirling movements throughout the brain, tearing nerve fibers and causing widespread bleeding or a blood clot in or around the brain.