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COAGULUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: coagula   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid

Synonyms:

clot; coagulum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("coagulum" is a kind of...):

ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump (a compact mass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coagulum"):

thrombus (a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin)

embolus (an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood)

Derivation:

coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state)

coagulate (cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state)

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