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clot
[ klot ]
noun
- a mass or lump.
- a semisolid mass, as of coagulated blood.
- a small compact group of individuals:
a clot of sightseers massed at the entrance.
- British Informal. blockhead, dolt, clod.
verb (used without object)
- to form into clots; coagulate.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to clot.
- to cover with clots:
Carefully aimed snowballs clotted the house.
- to cause to become blocked or obscured:
to clot the book's narrative with too many characters.
clot
/ klɒt /
noun
- a soft thick lump or mass
a clot of blood
- informal.a stupid person; fool
verb
- to form or cause to form into a soft thick lump or lumps
clot
/ klŏt /
- A soft insoluble mass formed when blood or lymph gels. During blood clotting, white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and various clotting factors interact in a cascade of chemical reactions initiated by a wound. When a body tissue is injured, calcium ions and platelets act on prothrombin to produce the enzyme thrombin. Thrombin then catalyzes the conversion of the protein fibrinogen into fibrin, a fibrous protein that holds the clot together. An abnormal clot inside the blood vessels or the heart (a thrombus or an embolus ) can obstruct blood flow.
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Derived Forms
- ˈclottish, adjective
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Other Words From
- de·clot verb declotted declotting
- non·clotting adjective
- un·clotted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clot1
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Example Sentences
Surgeons drilled a small hole in his skull and removed the blood clot.
And so far I see scant evidence that anything changed after she suffered a blood clot in December 2012.
That led to a blood clot forming between her brain and skull.
I had triple the normal rate of venous thromboembolism—a blood clot forming disorder—and an elevated risk for male breast cancer.
The result is a rapidly enlarging blood clot, called a hematoma.
Dugung nagpúgul sa inunlan, Placenta filled with a big clot of blood.
A clot is simply a mass of fibrin threads with a large number of corpuscles tangled within.
He was as one lost, as helpless in the crush of whirling humanity as a wind-driven clot of foam on a storm-tossed sea.
There was a clot of seaweed at his wrist, and the soles of his feet and one up-turned palm were grayish and shriveled.
It was a completely unforeseeable thing—a blood clot broke loose in a vein, and lodged in his brain.
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