Thrombus: Definition and part of speech

Thrombus

  1. n. A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
  2. n. A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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