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blood clot

[ bluhd klot ]

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noun

a mass of coagulated blood, as within a blood vessel or at the site of an open wound.

blood clot

First recorded in 1780–90

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.

It was a completely unforeseeable thing—a blood clot broke loose in a vein, and lodged in his brain.

His tunic was open, and a huge blood-clot hung like a dark handkerchief out of a slit in his white shirt.

He decided to leave his hand unbandaged, letting it bleed as much as it would and the blood clot naturally.

The importance of removing blood and blood-clot from the peritoneal cavity is demonstrated on p. 98.

An embolus occupied the pulmonary artery, resembling a blood-clot found in the left common and internal iliac veins.

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