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Definition of Coagulation

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

Definition of Coagulation

1. n. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.

Definition of Coagulation

1. Noun. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size (by any of several physical or chemical processes) ¹

2. Noun. The process by which blood forms solid clots. ¹

3. Noun. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coagulation

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Medical Definition of Coagulation

1. 1. The process of clot formation. 2. The solidification of a sol into a gelatinous mass, an alteration of a disperse phase or of a dissolved solid which causes the separation of the system into a liquid phase and an insoluble mass called the clot or curd. Coagulation is usually irreversible. 3. The disruption of tissue by physical means to form an amorphous residuum, as in electrocoagulation and photocoagulation. Origin: L. Coagulatio This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coagulation

Literary usage of Coagulation

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.) (1887)
"THE coagulation OF THE BLOOD. LC WOOLDRIDGE obtains blood from a dog immediately after the injection of peptone, which does not undergo coagulation, ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(a) coagulation of the Blood If a portion of the blood be drawn and allowed to ... If the blood be beaten during coagulation, the fibrin can be removed, ..."

3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"coagulation by Means of Heat If watery solutions of albuminous substances are heated to a certain temperature, the albumin becomes coagulated. ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"Blood does not undergo coagulation in immediate contact with the living and ... If blood stagnates in a living vessel, coagulation takes place in the ..."

5. Handbook of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1873)
"and solids, as the crystalline lens, chyle and lymph, connective tissue, &c., which are found capable of exciting coagulation in serous fluids, ..."

6. Lessons in elementary physiology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1881)
"The coagulation of the blood is hastened, retarded, or temporarily prevented by many circumstances. (a) Temperature.—A high temperature accelerates the ..."

7. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"There are a number of substances which when injected into the blood retard or prevent its coagulation. For instance, solutions of ordinary preparations of ..."

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