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COAGULUM
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Irregular inflected form: coagula
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid
Synonyms:
clot; coagulum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coagulum" is a kind of...):
ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump (a compact mass)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coagulum"):
thrombus (a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin)
embolus (an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood)
Derivation:
coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state)
coagulate (cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state)