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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

coagulatio

The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction;

as, the spontaneous

coagulation

of freshly drawn blood; the

coagulation

of milk by rennet, or acid, and the

coagulation

of egg albumin by heat

. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.

The substance or body formed by coagulation.

Noun.

The act of changing from a fluid to a fixed state; concretion; the state of being coagulated; the body formed by coagulating.