Definition of Clotting

1. Noun. The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid.


Definition of Clotting

1. Verb. (present participle of clot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clotting

1. clot [v] - See also: clot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clotting

clothy
clotiazepam
clotpoll
clotpolls
clots
clottage
clotted
clotted cream
clotter
clottered
clottering
clotters
clottier
clottiest
clotting (current term)
clotting factor
clotting time
clottish
clottishness
clotty
cloture
clotured
clotures
cloturing
clotweed
clou
cloud
cloud-built
cloud-burst

Literary usage of 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)
"BLOOD clotting the individual corpuscles move freely in a circular direction, but as soon as clotting begins they move in masses which soon tend to become ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"The clotting of blood is such a prominent phenomenon that it has attracted attention at all times, and as a result numerous ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1919)
"Although it is known that jaundice tends to cause delayed clotting of blood, ... As shown in Table I, clotting time was delayed in proportion to the amount ..."

4. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1892)
"From 1883 to 1889 numerous papers1 were published by Wooldridge on intravascular clotting. He showed that when a watery extract of lymphatic glands, ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"When the temperature instead of being raised is lowered below 40° C. the clotting becomes delayed and prolonged ; and at the temperature of 0° or 1° C. the ..."

6. A Text book of physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Hence we may speak of the clot as consisting of fibrin and corpuscles ; and the act of clotting is obviously a substitution for the plasma of fibrin and ..."

7. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"Now, if it be assumed that there is some anti-clotting substance normally ... A very small amount of thrombin will cause clotting of a fibrinogen solution ..."

8. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"Causation of Intravascular clotting. — Dr. LC Woold- ridge, of the Brown Institution, writes as follows : — " Notwithstanding all the work that has been ..."

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