noun / verb

clot

KLAHT/klɑːt/

A thick mass formed as blood or another liquid thickens, or the forming of such a mass.

A clot forms as the blood thickens.

A clean laboratory close-up: one clear glass test tube tilted slightly in a blue nitrile-gloved hand, holding a cohesive dark-red blood clot with a small amount of translucent straw-colored serum around it. A simple unmarked white tray lies below. The rounded gelatinous clot is unmistakably a solid mass within liquid. Non-graphic educational laboratory sample, no wound or body.

Etymology

The original word meant a lump generally, not specifically thickened blood. Its application to blood and other liquids keeps that concrete image: fluid gathers into a mass instead of remaining freely flowing.

In context

Shahnawaz Mashori0:45

blood clots the fibrinogen changes to fibrin resulting in the formation of a solid clot that traps blood cells and platelets

Serum vs plasma | what is the difference between serum and plasma. #medicallaboratory #health

More examples

The sample clotted.
Several clots were visible.
The liquid is clotting.

Forms

clot · clots · clotted · clotting

Similar words

coagulum: A technical name for the thickened mass.
lump: Any compact mass without the liquid-thickening process.