clot

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As the clot is attached to the sides of the vessel, the shrinkage is more pronounced toward the center, and thus the surface of the clot is hollowed or cupped_, as it is called.

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  1. noun A thick, viscous, or coagulated mass or lump, as of blood.
  2. noun A clump, mass, or lump, as of clay.
  3. noun A compact group: a clot of automobiles blocking the tunnel's entrance.
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  • Hang themselves, or have apoplexy, or a clot or something, or they get lost and catch their jesses in a tree and die of starvation. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • Or maybe your giving medicines that partly dissolved the clot is like us using these replacement batteries Boris nodded. —  Analog, March 2002
  • Yes, the clot was extremely fresh—the shiny, dark red of newly congealed blood. —  Clement, Hal - Needle.htm
  • A woman who ate a grapefruit each day almost had to have her leg amputated because of a dangerous blood clot, according to an unusual case study reported in the Lancet. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Ironically enough, the blood clot was a result of so many hours spent on planes, flying around the world from gig to gig. —  iVillage - Daily Blabber
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sticky ·  hemorrhage ·  smear ·  viscous ·  clod ·  clump ·  abscess ·  glob ·  fleck ·  thrombosis ·  smudge ·  mouthful

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clot:   clotted ·  clots ·  clotting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English clott, lump.

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  1. Also dial. clat (see clat); early modern English also clott; from Middle English clot, clotte (also later clodde, later English clod, q. v.), from Anglo-Saxon clott (very rare), a round mass, = Old Dutch klot, klotte (cf. Dutch klos, a bowl, block) = Middle High German kloz, German klotz, a block, lump, = Danish klods = Swedish klots, a block, lump, stump, stub. Prob. akin to cleat, q. v. The forms and senses of clot seem to have been confused in various languages with those of clotc = clot (clot-bur), clout, and cloud, cloud: see these words.
  2. from clot, n. Cf. freq. clotter = clutter.
 

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