Crassamentum
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The solid component of blood, blood from which serum has been removed; a mass of coagulated blood; a blood clot. obsolete
"Though air is excluded from venous blood the instant it is drawn, as by receiving it in fresh white of egg, milk or serum, in which it immediately sinks, nevertheless on coagulation the surface of the crassamentum will be of a comparatively light florid hue."
Example
More examples"Though air is excluded from venous blood the instant it is drawn, as by receiving it in fresh white of egg, milk or serum, in which it immediately sinks, nevertheless on coagulation the surface of the crassamentum will be of a comparatively light florid hue."
Etymology
From Latin crassus (“solid”).
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