Clotting
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Clotted material.
"There is only Gina, come down from the Villa, / her outrageous umbrella striped like a medicine ball / for the balancing act of a poodle, / to toil in the clottings of fog and the world's / suppuration […]"
- 2 the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of clot form-of, gerund, participle, present
"An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time."
Example
More examples"He has little clotting factor, so even the tiniest paper cut bleeds and bleeds."
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