Thrombus
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.
- 2 a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin wordnet
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Borrowed from New Latin thrombus, from the Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”); compare thrombo-.