thrombosis

American  

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /

noun

Pathology.

• thromboses
  plural

1. intravascular coagulation of the blood in any part of the circulatory system, as in the heart, arteries, veins, or capillaries.

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thrombosis British  

/ θrɒmˈbəʊsɪs, θrɒmˈbɒtɪk /

noun

1. the formation or presence of a thrombus

2. informal short for coronary thrombosis

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thrombosis Scientific  

/ thrŏm-bō′sĭs /

1. The formation or presence of a thrombus.

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thrombosis Cultural  

1. The development of a blood clot in the circulatory system. Depending on the location of the clot, the resultant loss of circulation can lead to a stroke (cerebral thrombosis) or heart attack (coronary thrombosis).

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• thrombotic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• thromboses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of thrombosis

First recorded in 1700–10; from New Latin, from Greek thrómbōsis; see origin at thromb-, -osis

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Example Sentences

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thrombosis thromboses

Her mother, 72-year-old Luz Marina, recently suffered a thrombosis, and her sister Sandra, 38, ended up in a wheelchair because of meningitis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

He missed a chunk of last season treating a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and the Spurs didn’t overreact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The action star said that she had been unaware of the prevalence among pregnant women of cerebral venous thrombosis, or CVT, which is the development of a blood clot in the brain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

The researchers estimate that the risk of deep vein thrombosis resulting from this combined preparation is about seven per thousand women per year.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

"Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess. In simple language: heart attack."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

He had previously overcome cancer, a heart attack and two thromboses.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024

The U.S. move is warranted, says Gowthami Arepally, a hematologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, given that the constellation of symptoms, cerebral venous sinus thromboses and low platelet counts, is very unusual.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2021

A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alan Alda, the Hawkeye Pierce of TV's long-running M*A*S*H, may provoke 100 and some thromboses as a result of the latest Alda-written, Alda-acted movie, The Seduction of Joe Tynan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fibrin is liberated, and thromboses occur, especially in the liver.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson