(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.
Coot
Definition:
(n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
(n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
(n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was at least one happy tale, after a coot family miraculously escaped from the floods.
(2) The timing of upper lip protrusion movements and accompanying acoustic events was examined for multiple repetitions of word pairs such as "lee coot" and "leaked coot" by four speakers of American English.
(3) Andrew Coote (@ACunit) @DanLucas86 Endless Blue by @horrorsofficial - he should have remained blue, he blue the season for @ManUtd & because he will be blue April 22, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.26pm BST The severance package Here's some information courtesy of someone who wishes to be known as Handsome B.
(4) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
(5) John Coote describes these treatments and their possible mechanisms of pharmacological action.
(6) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
(7) There is a proven link, says Coote, between shorter working hours, health and wellbeing, and freeing up time to take part in voluntary and democratic action.
(8) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
(9) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
(10) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
(11) There was evidence for a distinct sequence in the bird species dying at one site; American coots (Fulica americana) appeared to be the first species to die.
(12) At the height of the carping, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker likened Clinton to an “ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success”.
(13) This report analyzes a large data set (1906 individuals, 15 allozyme loci) from a single field collection of the coot clam Mulinia lateralis and demonstrates (1) significant heterozygote deficiencies at 13 of 15 loci, (2) a correlation between the magnitude of heterozygote deficiency at a locus and the effect of heterozygosity at that locus on shell length, and (3) a distribution of multilocus heterozygosity which deviates from that predicted by observed single-locus heterozygosities.
(14) Anna Coote, Nef's head of social policy, believes that if larger charities moved to four day weeks they would be rewarded with "a more rounded and balanced workforce, less prone to absenteeism and sickness, and more productive hour-for-hour."
(15) Her organisation previously talked about a 21-hour working week as being the right option for the economy and society, but Cootes believes this is too radical for many organisations to get their head around at the moment.
(16) The causative agent of ornithosis was isolated in virological examination of the organs of a coot.
(17) Se concentrations in kidneys and livers of American coots (Fulica americana) were significantly correlated (r = 0.9845); Se concentrations in breast muscles and livers of juvenile ducks (Anas spp.)
(18) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
(19) (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.)
(20) At Nef, Coote questions whether pay should be seen as a limiting factor.