(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.
Curdle
Definition:
(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
(3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
(4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
(5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
(6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
(7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
(8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
(9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
(10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
(11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
(13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
(14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
(15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
(16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
(17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
(18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
(19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
(20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.