Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The capacity of being coagulated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being coagulable; capacity of being coagulated.

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  • noun The ability to coagulate, of being coagulable

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Examples

  • PINSKY: We don't know for sure that stroke and heart attack as it pertains to alcohol is necessarily the result of coagulability (ph).

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2003 2003

  • But it is a remarkable fact that the acid of Lemons is harmful and obnoxious to cats, rabbits, and other small animals, because it lowers the heart's action in these creatures, and liquifies the blood; whereas, in man it does not diminish the coagulability of the blood, but proves more useful than any other agent in correcting that thin impoverished liquidity thereof which constitutes scurvy.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • It is probable that all these cases of resistance of seeds, spores, &c., are to be connected with the fact that completely dry albumin does not lose its coagulability on heating to 110°

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Not only is the general nervous system attacked instantly, but the coagulability of the blood is destroyed.

    The Film Mystery 1908

  • They probably result from an excess of coagulability of fibrin, which is produced by an organization of the lymph during exudation.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Experience has shown that violent exercise, especially when accompanied by nervous excitement, tends to liquify the blood and to interfere with its coagulability.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • This conclusion has lately been beautifully confirmed by a distinguished physiologist (Denis), who has succeeded in converting fibrine into albumen, that is, in giving it the solubility, and coagulability by heat, which characterise the white of egg.

    Familiar Letters on Chemistry Justus Freiherr von Liebig 1838

  • Other possible mechanisms include an increase in vascular calcification or coagulability or altered vascular flow.

    Medicaid and Medicare 2010

  • This in turn boosts levels of coagulability -- the tendency of blood to clot.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • This in turn boosts levels of coagulability - the tendency of blood to clot.

    National Nine News 2009

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