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clot

[klot] / klɒt /




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She suffered repeated seizures, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood clot, and experienced wild swings in blood pressure.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

These strokes occur when a blood clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

I found out that it’s not a blood clot at all.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

Doctors often prescribe blood thinners to these patients to reduce the chance of blood clots and stroke.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Symptoms can include periods lasting more than seven days, the need to change sanitary protection every one to two hours, passing large blood clots and signs of iron deficiency such as fatigue and dizziness.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Experts later determined she suffered from severe anemia; blood clots in both wings and one kidney; liver and lung abnormalities; and inadequate bone marrow response.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

This can make the blood thicker and raise the risk of blood clots, strokes and heart attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Then, two days after Henrietta went home from the hospital, Mary saw what looked like little rings of fried egg white around the clots at the bottoms of each tube.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Still, around the globe, other routes to citizenship are becoming more clotted.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

William revealed he had his scones the Devonian way - layering clotted cream first followed by jam.

From BBC ● May 22, 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

He came to Wentworth Street, which ran north and south and clearly served as Englewood’s main commercial street, its pavement clotted with horses, drays, and phaetons.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

It also injects a bit of saliva, which contains anticoagulants to prevent the host’s blood from clotting as the mosquito feeds.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

It contributes to emotional state, digestion, sleep, memory, and blood clotting.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 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

It is now known that a limulus clotting system, perhaps ancestral to ours, is centrally involved in the reaction.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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