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Definition of Thrombus

1. Noun. A blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin.

Definition of Thrombus

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

Definition of Thrombus

1. Noun. (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. ¹

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Definition of Thrombus

1. a clot occluding a blood vessel [n -BI]

Medical Definition of Thrombus

1. An aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements, frequently causing vascular obstruction at the point of its formation. Some authorities thus differentiate thrombus formation from simple coagulation or clot formation. Compare: embolism. Origin: Gr. Thrombos = clot This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrombus

Literary usage of Thrombus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"The diameter of the base, and of the body of the thrombus corresponds, ... In the larger vessels the colour of the thrombus, at its base and body, ..."

2. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: In Fifty by Theodor Billroth (1880)
"I will here add that the diagnosis of a venous thrombus cannot always be made, from the vein feeling like a hard cord ; for occasionally inflammation in the ..."

3. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures: In Fifty by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"I will here add that the diagnosis of a venous thrombus cannot always be made, from the vein feeling like a hard con! ; for occasionally inflammation in the ..."

4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"If you take a thrombus two days after the ligation of a small or ... If you again examine a thrombus six days old, the red blood-cells have almost ..."

5. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"If you take a thrombus two days after the ligation of a small or ... If you again examine a thrombus six days old, the red blood-cells have almost ..."

6. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures by Theodor Billroth (1872)
"If you take a thrombus two days after the ligation of a small or ... If you again examine a thrombus six days old, the red blood-cells have almost ..."

7. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty-one Lectures by Theodor Billroth, Charles Elihu Hackley, Alexander von Winiwarter (1883)
"This preparation shows a transverse section of a recent thrombus in a ... 26) is the transverse section of a human artery, closed with a thrombus for six ..."

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