(v.) That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
(v.) A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
(v.) A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
(v. t.) To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
(v. t.) To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
(v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
(v. i.) To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
(v. i.) To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent research has shown that more than two-thirds of internet users would ignore warning letters, and with more than 6 million internet users in Britain regularly downloading illegally copied music and films, the media industry believes so-called "technical measures", such as slowing down broadband connections, should be introduced before the courts system is clogged up with thousands of lawsuits.
(2) Additional modifications include design of a reliable sampling catheter and of a method for quickly and atraumatically replacing clogged catheters.
(3) Clogging of endoscopic stents necessitates their replacement in many patients with malignant obstructive jaundice and limits their use in benign strictures.
(4) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(5) Indeed, while people might be annoyed or alarmed at the idea of being given placebos, medics probably wouldn't need to were it not for the modern blight of the Worried Well clogging up consulting rooms.
(6) Malfunctioning of the balloon was due to leakage in 12 cases and to clogging of the inflation catheter in three cases.
(7) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(8) It’s no stretch to anticipate, should Obamacare go, a return to emergency rooms clogged with patients using them for primary care, healthcare costs again creeping up and lower wage earners going without care because it’s too expensive.
(9) The reasons for failure were: (1) separation of the inner PEJ tube from the outer gastrostomy tube (59%); (2) clogging (32%) due to small PEJ tube diameter; and (3) kinking and knotting (9%).
(10) It’s an indicator that you do not have good enough cycling infrastructure.” This can be seen in New York, he points out, where on busy, traffic-clogged Manhattan streets, perhaps 80% of cyclists will be male, while along the five-mile segregated cycle path that runs along the Hudson River, more than half will be women.
(11) Nobody cares about us or our families.” The doorless, green-and-yellow three-wheelers that clog Delhi’s streets were converted to compressed natural gas years ago, so they create little pollution.
(12) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(13) It was naïve to expect to get ambitious measures through Congress in a debate clogged up with scientific detail.
(14) Older cars and diesel engines produce particulates that clog up the lungs and may enter brain tissue, and nitrogen oxides that affect breathing.
(15) At least three stretches of an expressway were clogged with cars still submerged in water and mud; in Zhaoxindian, three dozen vehicles could be seen and more were thought to be entirely covered.
(16) A clogged Dobbhoff tube ruptured while it was being flushed manually with a syringe containing normal saline under great pressure.
(17) Coaxial trocar technique (19 patients) permits initial insertion of softer and often larger catheters (9-14 French feeding tubes), which are less likely to clog or require exchange; the intragastric balloon support method facilitates trocar insertion.
(18) Blood samples from nine healthy men were studied to determine the effect of ouabain and elevated serum calcium concentration on blood viscosity, measured by a rotational viscometer, and on red cell filterability by the St George's Filtrometer, giving values for clogging particles (CP) and red cell transit time (RCTT).
(19) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(20) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
Clot
Definition:
(n.) A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
(v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod.
(v. t.) To form into a slimy mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(2) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(3) Congenitally deficient plasmas were used as the substrate for the measurement of procoagulant activities in a one-stage clotting assay.
(4) The risk of total occlusion and clot formation in the renal artery after subintimal injection is high.
(5) After 30 min incubation, blood clotting was observed in all 8 experiments with heparin concentrations of 0 and 1 U per ml; in 3 of 8 with 2 U per ml; and in none with greater than or equal to 3 U per ml.
(6) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(7) Electron microscopy showed that the clots consist mainly of a suspension of individual fibers, in contrast to clots made from native fibrinogen, which are highly branched.
(8) In testing the hypothesis that Lp(a) can competitively inhibit plasma clot lysis mediated by plasmin, the present study shows that Lp(a) significantly enhanced plasma clot lysis mediated by streptokinase or t-PA.
(9) After adding 125I-labeled fibrinogen to plasma, clots were made by adding thrombin and calcium and were then resuspended in normal plasma containing various concentrations of JTPI-1.
(10) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(11) These data suggest that, in addition to platelet activation, abnormalities of blood clotting, and particularly reduction of antithrombin III, may play a role in the thrombotic tendency associated with homocystinuria.
(12) is related to the presence of adherent clots along cerebral arteries and when severe may lead to cerebral infarction.
(13) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(14) Concanavalin A was employed to study the role of platelet membrane glycoproteins in platelet-fibrin interactions during clot formation.
(15) Venous thrombosis occurred in 7 patients (17.5%) in the Kabi 2165 group, including two high, potentially emboligenic, localizations (5%), and in 4 patients (10%) in the standard heparin group, including 2 potentially emboligenic clots (5%).
(16) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(17) The assay shows strong correlation with the immunologic assay for factor XIII catalytic subunit a (r = 0.94), the factor XIII dansylcadaverine assay (r = 0.83), and the factor XIII clot solubility test.
(18) Unlike thrombin, the newly isolated kallikrein-like enzyme did not cause formation of a fibrin clot when fibrinogen was mixed with the enzyme.
(19) It has to be assumed that in calves with respiratory distress syndrome--in analogy to pulmonary immaturity--the blood clotting mechanism is not yet fully developed.
(20) Five other patients with water-insoluble paraproteins were tested; two were clot-inhibitory.