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BLOOD CLOTTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot)
Synonyms:
blood clotting; blood coagulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("blood clotting" is a kind of...):
clotting; coagulation; curdling (the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid)
Context examples:
An irregular, disc-shaped element in the blood that assists in blood clotting.
(Platelet, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug that inhibits blood clotting.
(Lepirudin, NCI Dictionary)
Garlic contains compounds that are antibacterial, antifungal and reduce blood clotting.
(Allium sativum, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug that is used to decrease the number of platelets in the blood in order to prevent blood clotting.
(Anagrelide, NCI Dictionary)
A drug used to prevent blood clotting and as a treatment that may help decrease weight loss in people with cancer.
(Pentoxifylline, NCI Dictionary)
Clotting factor is a protein needed for normal blood clotting.
(Hemophilia, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
A drug that reduces pain, fever, inflammation, and blood clotting.
(Aspirin, NCI Dictionary)
Kringles are autonomous structural domains, found throughout the blood clotting and fibrinolytic proteins.
(Kringle Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder of blood clotting that is attributable to a deficiency in liver function.
(Coagulation Disorder due to Liver Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)
Specifically, plasma protein and platelets form blood adsorption on the gel surface and trigger a blood clotting cascade.
(Injectable Bandage Created, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
