thrombosis
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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 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
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
I am not panting, and I’m not about to have a thrombosis.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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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
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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
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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