(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.
Clutter
Definition:
(n.) A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter.
(n.) Clatter; confused noise.
(v. t.) To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
(v. i.) To make a confused noise; to bustle.
(n.) To clot or coagulate, as blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is just news, sent racing round the globe and pursued by an instant cloud of reactive clutter.
(2) One of the observations that a number of commentators have been making about our government is they’ve said ‘your agenda is too cluttered, you’re fighting on too many fronts’.
(3) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
(4) There's a fear that mobile users will reject Facebook ad strategies as clutter on smaller screens.
(5) The user interface feels cluttered at times, and it has a definite learning curve, but it's also easy to carve out a quick and comfortable groove for yourself as you jump between a game and a few different applications.
(6) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
(7) They seriously threatened only twice – David de Gea saving in a cluttered first half when Chris Smalling diverted a Jonathan Parr header goalwards and then denying Cameron Jerome, on as a substitute, an equaliser shortly after Van Persie's goal – and remain two points above the bottom three.
(8) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
(9) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
(10) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
(11) Election time means satisfying people, and that means money,” said Abdulkadir, sitting in a cluttered tourist shop that also serves as a bureau-de-change in an upmarket Lagos hotel frequented by the city’s elite.
(12) She writes: After two gruelling hours, it was painfully clear that [interest rate] forward guidance, far from increasing clarity, has cluttered up the Bank's intellectual furniture with knockouts, staging posts and all the rest – while giving Britain's ever-ready consumers just the excuse they don't need to go shopping.
(13) I think every shot’s going in,” he said, “and this one was no different.” The shot came on a play Villanova works on every day in practice: Jenkins inbounds the ball toRyan Arcidiacono, he works it up court and forward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick near halfcourt to clutter things up, then Arcidiacono creates.
(14) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(15) The new experiments used electronic delay lines to simulate echo delay, thus avoiding movement of loudspeakers to different distances and the possible creation of delay-dependent backward masking between stimulus echoes and cluttering echoes from the loudspeaker surfaces.
(16) "There are parents who worry that what used to be a clear two-year run during the sixth form – when you had the chance to do sport and art and music as well as getting into deep study – has become cluttered up by too many modules, too many exams, which have led to too much time being spent weighing what you know and not enough time actually getting to grips with the subject," he said.
(17) This paper demonstrates that theory of signal detectability (TSD) methodology is applicable to bats and uses it to show that an important element of clutter limiting in Eptesicus fuscus and Noctilio leporinus is backward masking of phantom targets by the real echo from the loudspeakers used to generate them.
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(19) My first task is to make sure the room is laid out in an accessible way; there must be good wheelchair access and as little clutter as possible to make it safe for people with a visual impairment.
(20) Distractions, such as the music production business and clutter, such as teddy bears, have gone and healthier food options introduced.