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Thrombus

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Throm′bus

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Noun.

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pl.

Thrombi

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[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] a lump, a clot of blood.]

(Med.)

(a)

A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

(b)

A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Definition 2024

thrombus

thrombus

English

Noun

thrombus ‎(plural thrombi)

(hematology, pathology) A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements; that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.

Synonyms

blood clot

Derived terms

Derived terms

Translations

blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis

Arabic: خُثْرَة f ‎(ḵuṯra), جُلْطَة f ‎(julṭa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血栓 (zh) ‎(xuèshuān)
Czech: trombus m, krevní sraženina f
Dutch: trombose (nl) f
Finnish: veritulppa
French: thrombus (fr) m
German: Thrombus m
Greek: θρόμβος (el) m ‎(thrómvos)
Greenlandic: aagiak
Hungarian: vérrög (hu)

Icelandic: blóðkökkur m
Ido: trombuso (io)
Italian: trombosi (it) f
Japanese: 血栓 ‎(けっせん, kessen)
Maori: poketoto
Navajo: dił diyilii
Polish: zakrzep m
Portuguese: trombo m
Romanian: trombus (ro), cheag de sânge n
Russian: тромб (ru) m ‎(tromb)
Spanish: coágulo (es) m
Swedish: blodpropp c

See also

embolus

French

Noun

thrombus m ‎(plural thrombus)

thrombus