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thrombosis

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /
NOUN
apoplexy
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San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama missed 30 games in 2025 due to a deep-vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Hurts has been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and a bilateral pulmonary emboli, the statement said, meaning a blood clot has traveled from his legs to his lungs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

I am not panting, and I’m not about to have a thrombosis.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

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

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

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

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


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