clot
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She thought it was the baby, but a nurse confirmed it was a blood clot, 3 inches across.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Sinbad had an ischemic stroke — the result of a blood clot that traveled from his heart to his brain — in 2020.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Maradona, regarded as one of the greatest football players of all times, died in November 2020 at age 60, while recovering at home from surgery for a brain clot.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
Wembanyama’s career seemed to be in jeopardy, as doctors had discovered a blood clot in his shoulder that forced him to miss the season’s last two months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Had he thrown a clot that had lodged in his heart?
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Venous thromboembolism refers to dangerous blood clots that form in a vein and may travel to the lungs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
However, the vaccine was also restricted for use in some countries because of rare blood clots which affected up to one in 100,000 people.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Watchman device is designed to prevent blood clots and reduce the risk of stroke.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The role of vitamin K is so crucial that researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1943 for their discovery of its ability to form clots and stop bleeding in babies.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Still, around the globe, other routes to citizenship are becoming more clotted.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
One tenacious fallacy about Shakespeare is that his speeches are always clotted with gargantuan words; Macbeth’s “multitudinous seas incarnadine” is a classic example.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
High-fat creams generally contain 30-40% fat and include whipping cream, double cream and clotted cream.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
The bar is essentially a pistachio rendition of knafeh: a traditional Middle Eastern dessert made with kataifi, soaked in a sugar-based syrup called attar, and layered with cheese, clotted cream or nuts.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2024
Far out in the harbor, tea clotted the brilliancy of sun upon the water.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
He hypothesized that the drug might reduce blood clotting and thus prevent heart attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Pulmonary embolism and hereditary coagulopathy — an arterial blockage in the lungs and issues with blood clotting either too much or too little — contributed to his death, People said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Revenue tied to Eliquis, a blood thinner that reduces the risk of clotting and stroke, also increased 8% .
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
Some treatments focus on particular complications such as clotting, autonomic nervous system problems, and immune imbalance.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
The mutation in the hemophilia gene, which affects the clotting of blood, had likely arisen spontaneously in Queen Victoria at birth.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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