A gelatinous mass of fibrin and blood cells formed by the coagulation of blood.
Example sentencesExamples
He'd already felt the wound begin to mend and the blood clot before the girl touched the bandages.
Among the 39 travellers who suffered from a blood clot, 28 had travelled by car, nine by plane and two by train.
We suspected that Dad may have a tumour in his shoulder from all the pain he's been getting from that but it turns out to be a blood clot, so easily treatable.
His diagnosis was that I had a large blood clot in my arm and it was fortunate that I got there when I did.
Well, I have a small blood clot from the big bruise and sometimes it bothers me.
Her heart muscle was irreparably damaged by a blood clot and now she takes daily medication to control her heart beat and rhythm.
He ended up in and out of hospitals with mysterious coronary troubles and a blood clot in each lung.
After open-heart surgery in London, he was about to leave hospital when he developed a blood clot and was saved by emergency surgery.
He had suffered a fatal blood clot, likely to have been brought on by periods of sustained immobility caused by Parkinson's disease.
He had suffered a blood clot which led to an irregular heartbeat and has now been told by doctors to stop working a 70-hour week.
She is still awaiting the results of tests on a shadow an X-ray revealed on her lung which doctors believe is a blood clot that may require surgery.
In 1998, she broke her left hip and a blood clot was discovered for which she was given a course of blood-thinning drugs.
She almost died after suffering a massive blood clot in her back, and suffered a broken leg and beatings which caused permanent scars.
During most strokes, a blood vessel in the brain becomes clogged by a blood clot.
The good news is that it is definitely not a blood clot and I probably don't have kidney stones.
The official cause of death is a heart attack in one case and a blood clot in the lung in the other.
Platelets are the part of blood that stick together to form a blood clot.
He underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.
The most common form of stroke occurs when part of the brain is deprived of oxygen after a blood vessel is suddenly clogged by a blood clot.
She was left with a fractured cheekbone, two chipped ribs and a possible blood clot on her lung after an unprovoked and ferocious attack.
Definition of blood clot in US English:
blood clot
noun
A gelatinous mass of fibrin and blood cells formed by the coagulation of blood.
Example sentencesExamples
He ended up in and out of hospitals with mysterious coronary troubles and a blood clot in each lung.
The most common form of stroke occurs when part of the brain is deprived of oxygen after a blood vessel is suddenly clogged by a blood clot.
He had suffered a blood clot which led to an irregular heartbeat and has now been told by doctors to stop working a 70-hour week.
The official cause of death is a heart attack in one case and a blood clot in the lung in the other.
Well, I have a small blood clot from the big bruise and sometimes it bothers me.
Platelets are the part of blood that stick together to form a blood clot.
She is still awaiting the results of tests on a shadow an X-ray revealed on her lung which doctors believe is a blood clot that may require surgery.
The good news is that it is definitely not a blood clot and I probably don't have kidney stones.
Her heart muscle was irreparably damaged by a blood clot and now she takes daily medication to control her heart beat and rhythm.
After open-heart surgery in London, he was about to leave hospital when he developed a blood clot and was saved by emergency surgery.
We suspected that Dad may have a tumour in his shoulder from all the pain he's been getting from that but it turns out to be a blood clot, so easily treatable.
In 1998, she broke her left hip and a blood clot was discovered for which she was given a course of blood-thinning drugs.
He underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.
She almost died after suffering a massive blood clot in her back, and suffered a broken leg and beatings which caused permanent scars.
His diagnosis was that I had a large blood clot in my arm and it was fortunate that I got there when I did.
He'd already felt the wound begin to mend and the blood clot before the girl touched the bandages.
Among the 39 travellers who suffered from a blood clot, 28 had travelled by car, nine by plane and two by train.
She was left with a fractured cheekbone, two chipped ribs and a possible blood clot on her lung after an unprovoked and ferocious attack.
He had suffered a fatal blood clot, likely to have been brought on by periods of sustained immobility caused by Parkinson's disease.
During most strokes, a blood vessel in the brain becomes clogged by a blood clot.