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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.


cerebral thrombosis Cultural  
  1. A thrombosis in the brain.


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Othon Friesz, 69, French landscape painter; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Paris.

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

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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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