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Definition of Coagulate

1. Adjective. Transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass. "Grumous blood"

2. Verb. Change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state. "Coagulated blood"

3. Verb. Cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state.

Definition of Coagulate

1. a. Coagulated.

2. v. t. To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

3. v. i. To undergo coagulation.

Definition of Coagulate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to congeal. ¹

3. Noun. A mass formed by means of coagulation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coagulate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Medical Definition of Coagulate

1. 1. To convert a fluid or a substance in solution into a solid or gel. 2. To clot; to curdle; to change from a liquid to a solid or gel. Origin: L. Coagulo, pp. -atus, to curdle (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coagulate

coagmentation coagmentations coagmented coagmenting coagments coagonist coagonists coagula coagulabilities coagulability

coagulable coagulant coagulants coagulase coagulases coagulate coagulated coagulates coagulating coagulation

coagulation factor coagulation factor XI coagulation necrosis coagulation profile coagulation time coagulation vitamin coagulations coagulative coagulator coagulators

Literary usage of Coagulate

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

1. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"Blood, to coagulate upon a coat, in a house and with fire in it, depends upon ... Sometimes, where death is the result of a shock, blood does not coagulate; ..."

2. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene: For Schools, Families, and Colleges by James Cecil Dalton (1870)
"Why Blood does not Coagulate in the Vessels.—Daily Production and Decomposition of Fibrine.—Entire Quantity of Blood in the Body—its Variation. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"The first and twelfth ounce, in a venesection of twelve ounces, coagulate within different spaces of time, and present, therefore, different coats. 4. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Life and Doctrines of the Late John Hunter, Esq.: Founder of by Joseph Adams (1818)
"... made to coagulate (are coagulable) only by chemical means.—Perhaps," continues he, " coagulating might be better applied to what is usually called ..."

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