clot
121blood clot — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms blood clot : singular blood clot plural blood clots medical a soft mass of almost solid blood that blocks a tube in your body …
122Medication, clot-dissolving — Drugs used to dissolve blood clots. Agents such as plasminogen activator (t PA) and streptokinase that are effective in dissolving clots and re opening arteries. Used, for example, in the treatment of heart attacks. Clot dissolvers are also… …
123adherent clot — a clot that overlies the floor of a peptic ulcer and cannot be dislodged by irrigation …
124antemortem clot — a blood clot formed before death but found after death in the heart or in a large vessel …
125chicken fat clot — a blood clot that appears yellow because of the settling out of the erythrocytes before clotting occurred, typically representing postmortem clotting …
126currant jelly clot — a blood clot of reddish color because of the presence of erythrocytes enmeshed in it …
127distal clot — a clot formed in a blood vessel distal to a ligature …
128external clot — a clot formed outside a blood vessel …