cerebral thrombosis

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. formation of a clot or other blockage in one of the blood vessels of the brain, often followed by neurologic damage; a type of stroke.

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cerebral thrombosis Cultural  

1. A thrombosis in the brain.

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Example Sentences

Corneille Heymans, 76, Belgian physiologist who won a 1938 Nobel prize for discovering a main control mechanism for blood pressure and respiration; of cerebral thrombosis; in Knokke, Belgium.

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William Thomas Lopp, 74, longtime Alaska's Reindeer Superintendent and Chief of the Alaskan Division of the U. S. Bureau of Education; of cerebral thrombosis and meningitis; in Seattle.

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Then, on Jan. 15, Lord Moran, Churchill's personal physician for 24 years, announced that he had "developed a circulatory weakness, and there has been a cerebral thrombosis."

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In 1919, when Wilson was stricken by cerebral thrombosis, Tumulty suggested that he be declared incapable of holding office and allow Vice President Thomas Marshall to take over.

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Last month, felled by a cerebral thrombosis, Schuman rallied weakly, but remained bedridden.

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