I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood clot (= a mass formed when blood dries or sticks together )
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Blood clots in the legs are potentially fatal.
blood clots (= forms a mass and stops flowing )
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The blood should clot and stop the wound from bleeding.
clotted cream British English (= very thick cream that you cannot pour )
clotted cream
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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When the platelet count in your blood drops too low, your blood does not clot as well as usual.
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To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Blood had clotted on the cuts on his back and on his arms.
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Some types of snake venom prevent blood from clotting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ireland had became a wound that would not clot .
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The stag's eyes were rolled back and its nostrils were clotted with blood.
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To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
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Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
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Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism.
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This is the formation of a blood clot in a deep lying vein, which needs immediate medical treatment.
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The blockage is usually caused by a blood clot forming in an artery already narrowed by fatty atheroma.
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The operation had gone all right, but the aftermath was not good-culminating in a blood clot .
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But eight days later he developed a blood clot and died.
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They wanted to know why doctors didn't notice a swelling, caused by the blood clot , for two days.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Blood fills the space and clots, capillaries grow into the clot and form granulation tissue.
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Neurosurgeons have successfully moved a blood clot from her brain and are keeping a close watch on her.
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Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat, wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump.
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These are more clot specific than streptokinase.
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To obtain serum, we permit the blood to clot and then separate the clot from the residual serum.