coagulum
Americannoun
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coagula
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of coagulum
1650–60; < Latin: that which binds together or coagulates, rennet, equivalent to co- co- + āg-, combining form, in noun derivation, of agere to drive, do ( see ambages, indagate) + -ulum -ule; compare cōgere to make congeal, literally, to drive together; see cogent
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If air is rigidly excluded, the coagulum obtained is quite satisfactory for all purposes.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
No coagulum should be left without working for longer than the ordinary period.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
Nor does it hold with regard to plantation rubber prepared in an exceptional manner, as, for instance, matured coagulum or “slab.”
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
“Dog-ears” due to the folding over of corners of the sheets, and creases due to the rumpling of the coagulum, are generally the result of haste and lack of average care.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
In order to secure the desired effect the coagulum must be passed consecutively through the three types of rolls, and undergoes a varying degree of working in each.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
“This movie is a hybrid of genres itself, and the monstrous operation that the movie’s about, the coagula procedure, is in itself a hybridization. Michael was my guy, and I really never looked any further.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2017
Care must be taken lest it be closed up by coagula during the first hour or two after the operation.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
It seems to me very probable that these isolated sporangia are identical with the hyaline coagula so accurately described by Frerichs, who has observed them in the blood of patients dying of intermittent fevers.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
I avoid those which stain or which produce firm coagula.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Fibrinous coagula and polypous concretions may be found in the cavities of the heart.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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