coagulable
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of coagulable
First recorded in 1645–55; coagul(ate) + -able
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Less of that animal matter which is coagulable by acids and by the absorption of atmospheric oxygen, is found in it.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
This depends on the greater amount of blood which beef and mutton contain, the colouring matter of blood not being coagulable under 158°.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
It abounds in the serum of the blood, the vitreous and crystalline humours of the eye, the fluid of dropsy, the substance called coagulable lymph, in nutritive matters, the juice of flesh, &c.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
In this urine the transparent sediment or cloud is mucous; the opake sediment is probably coagulable lymph from the blood changed by an animal or chemical process.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
This latter morbid condition, may supervene on the irritation, and occasion a suppression of the serous effusion, and the formation of coagulable lymph or pus.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
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