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
He spent four weeks and five days in a coma and suffered an extremely rare, life-threatening side effect called VITT, or vaccine-induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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
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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
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
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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