thrombosis
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Her mother, 72-year-old Luz Marina, recently suffered a thrombosis, and her sister Sandra, 38, ended up in a wheelchair because of meningitis.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He missed a chunk of last season treating a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and the Spurs didn’t overreact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
A calf issue - later diagnosed as deep vein thrombosis - then denied 2022's fastest man the chance to compete for a world medal.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025
The action star said that she had been unaware of the prevalence among pregnant women of cerebral venous thrombosis, or CVT, which is the development of a blood clot in the brain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024
"Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess. In simple language: heart attack."
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
He had previously overcome cancer, a heart attack and two thromboses.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
The U.S. move is warranted, says Gowthami Arepally, a hematologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, given that the constellation of symptoms, cerebral venous sinus thromboses and low platelet counts, is very unusual.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2021
A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alan Alda, the Hawkeye Pierce of TV's long-running M*A*S*H, may provoke 100 and some thromboses as a result of the latest Alda-written, Alda-acted movie, The Seduction of Joe Tynan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fibrin is liberated, and thromboses occur, especially in the liver.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
