blood clot

noun

: a thick and sticky clump of dried blood that stops blood from flowing through a blood vessel in a person or an animal

She had a blood clot in her lungs.

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Strokes are caused when a blood clot blocks blood flow to the brain or, less frequently, when a blood vessel ruptures and causes bleeding in the brain. —

Meg Tirrell, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024 This pressure can help ensure that the blood clot needed to protect the surface of the socket properly forms. —

Maxine Lipner, Verywell Health, 19 Oct. 2024 The former Army Special Forces soldier had been clocking over 100 hours per week working on a $2 billion deal when a blood clot killed him. —

Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2024 So his doctors eventually resorted to using cardiac catheterization, which involved threading a catheter through his blood vessels near his heart to dissolve the blood clot from the inside, Tapadia said. —

Sonia Heng, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for blood clot