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thrombosis

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /
NOUN
apoplexy
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Research has found that it can take more than six months for professional athletes to return to play after being treated for a deep-vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

On Monday, the Eagles announced he had been diagnosed with a deep-vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli.

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

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

"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

Stravinsky is 87 and in precarious health; Craft writes painfully and graphically about the old man's gastric ulcers and thromboses.

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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