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clot
[ klot ]
noun
- a mass or lump.
- a semisolid mass, as of coagulated blood.
- a small compact group of individuals:
a clot of sightseers massed at the entrance.
- British Informal. blockhead, dolt, clod.
verb (used without object)
- to form into clots; coagulate.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to clot.
- to cover with clots:
Carefully aimed snowballs clotted the house.
- to cause to become blocked or obscured:
to clot the book's narrative with too many characters.
clot
/ klɒt /
noun
- a soft thick lump or mass
a clot of blood
- informal.a stupid person; fool
verb
- to form or cause to form into a soft thick lump or lumps
clot
/ klŏt /
- A soft insoluble mass formed when blood or lymph gels. During blood clotting, white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and various clotting factors interact in a cascade of chemical reactions initiated by a wound. When a body tissue is injured, calcium ions and platelets act on prothrombin to produce the enzyme thrombin. Thrombin then catalyzes the conversion of the protein fibrinogen into fibrin, a fibrous protein that holds the clot together. An abnormal clot inside the blood vessels or the heart (a thrombus or an embolus ) can obstruct blood flow.
Derived Forms
- ˈclottish, adjective
Other Words From
- de·clot verb declotted declotting
- non·clotting adjective
- un·clotted adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of clot1
Example Sentences
There is a clot that forms and blood can’t get to the heart, and your heart muscle dies.
No cases of blood clots are expected in older men, and two cases in every million doses are expected for women 50 and older.
Johnson & Johnson presented data on two other cases of clots in people who received the vaccine during a clinical trial, one of whom was a 25-year-old man with a hallmark of the symptoms.
She has had three surgeries to remove blood clots in her brain and her condition is slowly improving, he said.
Studies suggest that some inoculated people develop an immune response that attacks a protein called platelet factor 4 or PF4, which makes platelets form clots.
Surgeons drilled a small hole in his skull and removed the blood clot.
And so far I see scant evidence that anything changed after she suffered a blood clot in December 2012.
That led to a blood clot forming between her brain and skull.
I had triple the normal rate of venous thromboembolism—a blood clot forming disorder—and an elevated risk for male breast cancer.
The result is a rapidly enlarging blood clot, called a hematoma.
Dugung nagpúgul sa inunlan, Placenta filled with a big clot of blood.
A clot is simply a mass of fibrin threads with a large number of corpuscles tangled within.
He was as one lost, as helpless in the crush of whirling humanity as a wind-driven clot of foam on a storm-tossed sea.
There was a clot of seaweed at his wrist, and the soles of his feet and one up-turned palm were grayish and shriveled.
It was a completely unforeseeable thing—a blood clot broke loose in a vein, and lodged in his brain.
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