blood clot

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

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Fixed dilatation of one pupil may result from pressure by blood-clot, without other functional disturbance of the nerve.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
An embolus occupied the pulmonary artery, resembling a blood-clot found in the left common and internal iliac veins.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various
A blood-clot formed within a blood-vessel during life is called a thrombus.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various
The thrombus being a blood-clot, it is composed, like the latter, of fibrin and blood-corpuscles.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various

The importance of removing blood and blood-clot from the peritoneal cavity is demonstrated on p. 98.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4)|Various

Medicine definitions for blood clot

A semisolid, gelatinous mass of coagulated blood that consists of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in a fibrin network.

Science definitions for blood clot

See embolism.

See thrombus.