thrombosev.
/ˈθrɒmbəʊz/, /ˈθrɒmbəʊs/, /θrɒmˈbəʊz/, /θrɒmˈbəʊs/, U.S. /ˈθrɑmˌboʊs/, /ˈθrɑmˌboʊz/ Medicine.
1. intransitive. Esp. of a blood vessel: to undergo thrombosis; to become occupied or obstructed by a thrombus.
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thrombose1890
1890 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 June 1481/1 On June 3rd I opened the wound, and found that the sinus was firm, and that it had evidently thrombosed very recently.
1938 Arch. Pathol. 25 486 When the hemorrhage occurs into the deeper intimal layers, the capillaries adjacent to the point of rupture may thrombose.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 401/1 Small blood vessels thrombose but larger vessels appear to be undamaged.
2008 Diagnostic & Interventional Radiol. 14 113/3 Another option is conservative management by stopping anticoagulation and observing the endoleak until it thromboses spontaneously.
2. transitive. To cause thrombosis in (as a pathological process or therapeutic procedure); to obstruct with a thrombus. Cf. earlier thrombosed adj. Also figurative with reference to traffic flow.
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thrombose1892
1892 Lancet 23 Apr. 913/1 The pulmonary arteriole supplying this was thrombosed by a dark, softish clot.
1910 Practitioner June 779 Acute endometritis... When sufficiently severe..to thrombose the endometrial capillaries.
1987 ‘J. Gash’ Moonspender (1988) xvi. 157 I got the Ruby parked in the tangle of motors that thrombose the shopping mall.
2014 J. Weinberger in W. S. Aronow et al. Tresch & Aronow's Cardiovascular Dis. Elderly (ed. 5) xxiv. 605 The optimum care for subarachnoid hemorrhage is prevention of rebleeding by surgical clipping of the aneurysm or by thrombosing the aneurysm with endovascular coils.
Derivatives
thromˈbosing adj. relating to or causing thrombosis; undergoing thrombosis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > [adjective] > thrombus or thrombosis
autochthonous1859
thrombotic1859
thromboid1860
thrombosed1861
thrombosing1903
1903 Med. Sentinel Oct. 621/2 The thrombosing properties of electricity had brought about this result.
1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 1412/2 Thus the coils were evidently due to secondary eddies in the thrombosing blood.
1923 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 36 313/1 The thrombosing part can sometimes be palpated.
1965 Revue Roumaine d'Inframicrobiol. 2 71 Caudal thrombosing vasculopathies can be considered as manifestations of a latent pararickettsial infection.
2006 S. R. Vallabhaneni et al. in A. G. Hakaim Current Endovascular Treatm. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms xxii. 251 Closing type I endoleak tracks by injecting thrombosing agents or placing coils has been abandoned because of concerns with pressure transmission through a thrombus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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