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coagulation

[koh-ag-yuh-lay-shuhn] / koʊˌæg jəˈleɪ ʃən /


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According to his death certificate, Busch died from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

The contaminated water then went through coagulation and filtration using a Jar Test system, which mimics water treatment processes on a small scale.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026

Across the island, seventeen reservoirs catch and store rainwater, which is treated through a series of chemical coagulation, rapid gravity filtration and disinfection.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

Disseminated intravascular coagulation is a state in which the complex processes of blood clotting run amok.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023

In the pleasing language of the doctors, "it prevents the pectous change of colloidal matter, and so prevents rigor mortis, coagulation of blood, and solidification of nervous centres and cords."

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various

Their snarling energy is matched by their neighbors: the creepy coagulations of color, plastic, resin, drawing and grommets that form the paintings of KAYA, a collaboration consisting of the artists Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2017

Biofilms, dense coagulations of bacteria like dental plaque, are responsible for an estimated 65 percent of bacterial infections and make bacteria more resistant to antibiotics.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2014

Members often point out that veteran judge Professor Lloyd Dallas Herrold of Northwestern University has a weakness for coagulations like "Temptasty," that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries.

From Time Magazine Archive

And we use them for all coagulations, indurations, refrigerations, and conservations of bodies.

From Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More

Boerhaave greatly recommended the use of dandelion in most chronical distempers, and held it capable of resolving all kinds of coagulations, and most obstinate obstructions of the viscera, if it were duly continued.

From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith


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