Definition of Blood clotting

1. Noun. A process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot).

Exact synonyms: Blood Coagulation
Generic synonyms: Clotting, Coagulation, Curdling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Clotting

blood brotherhood
blood brothers
blood calculus
blood cancer
blood catecholamine
blood cell
blood cell count
blood cells
blood circulation
blood circulation time
blood clam
blood clots
blood clotting (current term)
blood clotting factor
blood coagulation
blood coagulation factor inhibitors
blood coagulation factors
blood coagulation tests
blood component removal
blood component transfusion
blood corpuscle
blood corpuscles
blood count
blood crisis
blood crystals
blood culture
blood cup

Literary usage of Blood clotting

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

1. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"CHAPTER XII BLOOD: blood clotting On leaving the blood vessels, the blood clots so as to form a plug, which assists in preventing further hemorrhage. ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"This question was tested by the most accurate method of determining blood clotting, the original Wright method. The author reports the effect on the human ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"(4) Some experiments on blood-clotting. By ALBERT S. GRUN- BACM, Gonville and Caius College. [Abstract; received March S, 1891.] In the ' Centralblatt fiir ..."

4. Advanced Physiology and Hygiene: For Use in Secondary Schools by Herbert William Conn, Robert Allyn Budington (1909)
"One of the constituents of the plasma will be noticed later because of its important relation to blood clotting. ..."

5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"... and Lanman 2241 made careful com- ' temperature and pulse t ater muscular correct. exercise ( ibid., xxxiii. narrow strips cut from blood clotting. ..."

6. Kirkes' Handbook of Physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes, Charles Wilson Greene (1922)
"Howell's demonstration of antithrombin offers a new factor in the problem of blood clotting. For example, the hastening influence of ..."

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