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Definition: Thrombus |
ThrombusNoun1. A blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Thrombus \Throm"bus\, noun; plural Thrombi. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression lump, clot of blood.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | An aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements, frequently causing vascular obstruction at the point of its formation. Some authorities thus differentiate thrombus formation from simple coagulation or clot formation. (references) |
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Crosswords: Thrombus |
| English words defined with "thrombus": coronary thrombosis, Coumadin ♦ thrombectomy, Thrombi, thromboembolism, thrombophlebitis, thrombose, thrombosis ♦ warfarin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thrombus": Antifibrinolytic Agents ♦ deep vein thrombosis, deep venous thrombosis ♦ Myocardial Ischemia, Myocardial Reperfusion ♦ Platelet Aggregation ♦ Sinus Thrombosis, Intracranial ♦ Vertebral Artery Dissection. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "thrombus": thrombin, thrombosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Thrombus" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (thrombus), German (thrombus), Manx (thrombus). |
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 | Gross pathology of mural thrombus, apex of ventricle of heart. Autopsy.Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of placenta thrombus with inflammatory cells and acid-fast bacilli of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Ziehl-Neelsen stain).Credit: CDC. |
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| "Thrombus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thrombus" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thrombus | 21 |
deep vein thrombus | 8 |
saddle thrombus | 3 |
mural thrombus | 3 |
animation formation thrombus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "thrombus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тромб (clot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 血栓 (Thrombi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trombe, blod, der er koaguleret på væggen i en blodåre, opstået på stedet (blood clot), trombe (spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thrombus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trombi, veritulppa (blood clot, embolus, thromb|us, thrombosis), veritukos, suonensisäinen hyytymä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thrombus (m), thrombus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Thrombus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θρόμβος (blood clot, blood coagulation, clot, coagulated blood, coagulation, coagulum, cruor, knot, lump, nodule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trombo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 血栓 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けっせん (bloody battle, deciding match, decisive battle, final election, play-off, run-off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 혈전 (Thrombi). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thrombus, clabbid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ombusthray тромб (clot, thrombi, trombus). (various references) trombo. (various references) tromb (tornado), blodpropp (embolism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Thrombus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Strombus, theorbos, thromb, thrombo, Torrabus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "thrombus" (pronounced 'Throm"bus'): Choriambus, iambus, Jacobus, Phoebus, rhombus, Rubus, Strombus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-m-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: rhombus. | |
-2 letters: borsht, broths, humors, mohurs, mouths, rhombs, rhumbs, robust, rouths, throbs, thrums, thumbs, tumors, turbos. | |
-3 letters: bhuts, borts, bouts, broth, brush, buhrs, burst, horst, hours, humor, hurst, hurts, mohur, morts, moths, mouth, musth, rhomb, rhumb, roust, routh, routs, ruths, short, shout, shrub, south, storm, stour, strum, thous, throb, thrum, thumb, tombs, torus. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-m-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bothriums. | |
+3 letters: bumbershoot. | |
+4 letters: bumbershoots. | |
+5 letters: blabbermouths, mouthbreeders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 72 6F 6D 62 75 73 |
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