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thrombosis

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /
NOUN
apoplexy
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Wembanyama returned to the court after a lengthy layoff last season caused by deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.

From Barron's Nov. 17, 2025

Wembanyama hadn’t played a regular season contest in eight months—he missed a chunk of last season as he recovered from a worrisome diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

The researchers estimate that the risk of deep vein thrombosis resulting from this combined preparation is about seven per thousand women per year.

From Science Daily Nov. 27, 2024

The statement said: "I would ask you to be alert to the possibility of this syndrome in any patient within 28 days of receiving Covid vaccination with thrombosis or unexplained thrombocytopaenia."

From BBC Aug. 23, 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 Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )




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