thrombosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis, “curdling, clotting”); synchronically analyzable as thrombus +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɹɒmˈbəʊsɪs/
(General American) IPA^(key): /θɹɑmˈboʊsɪs/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Hyphenation: throm‧bo‧sis

Noun

thrombosis (countable and uncountable, plural thromboses)

(pathology) The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
- 1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan modernisation completed”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
  The cure for thrombosis at the heart of London was to start work quickly on the new Victoria line. A high-level decision to proceed with this railway was urgently awaited
- 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 37:
  Blood-clotting platelets had surged like minnows to the site of injury, clumping together to form a thrombosis that blocked the artery, causing a heart attack and tissue death.

Derived terms

deep vein thrombosis
hyperthrombosis
immunothrombosis
macrothrombosis
microthrombosis
photothrombosis
rethrombosis
thrombotic
thrombus

Translations

formation of thrombi in the blood vessels, causing obstruction of the circulation

Arabic: خُثار‎ (khuthar)
Basque: tronbosi
Bavarian: Trombosn, Thrombose f
Belarusian: трамбоз m (trambóz)
Bulgarian: тромбоза f (tromboza)
Catalan: trombosi f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血栓形成 (zh) (xuèshuān xíngchéng or xiěshuān xíngchéng)
Czech: trombóza (cs) f
Danish: trombose c
Dutch: trombose (nl) f
Esperanto: trombozo
Finnish: tromboosi (fi), veritulppa (fi)
French: thrombose (fr) f
Galician: trombose (gl) f
German: Thrombose (de) f
Greek: θρόμβωση (el) f (thrómvosi)
Hebrew: פַּקֶּקֶת‎ (he) f (pakeket)
Hindi: घनास्रता f (ghanāsratā)
Hungarian: trombózis (hu)
Icelandic: segamyndun
Ido: tromboso (io)
Indonesian: trombosis (id)
Irish: trombóis f
Italian: trombosi (it) f
Japanese: 血栓症 (ja) (けっせんしょう, kessenshō)
Kannada: ಕರಣೆಗಟ್ಟಿಕೆ (kn) (karaṇegaṭṭike), ಹೆಪ್ಪುಗಂಟಿಕೆ (kn) (heppugaṇṭike), ಕರಣೆಗಂಟಿಕೆ (kn) (karaṇegaṇṭike)
Kazakh: қан ұюы (qan ūüy)
Korean: 혈전증 (hyeoljeonjeung)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xwîntîrî (ku), xwînmeyîn (ku)
Kyrgyz: тромбоз (tromboz)
Latvian: tromboze f
Lithuanian: trombozė f
Luxembourgish: Thrombos f
Macedonian: тромбоза f (tromboza)
Malayalam: ത്രോംബോസിസ് (ml) (trōmbōsisŭ)
Manx: clabbid cuishlin, clabbid folley
Norman: coup d'sang m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: trombose m
Nynorsk: trombose m
Occitan: trombòsi f
Polish: zakrzepica (pl) f
Portuguese: trombose f
Romanian: tromboză (ro) f
Russian: тромбо́з (ru) m (trombóz)
Scottish Gaelic: cleiteachd-fhala f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тромбо́за f
Roman: trombóza (sh) f
Slovak: trombóza (sk) f
Slovene: tromboza f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tromboza f
Upper Sorbian: tromboza f
Spanish: trombosis (es) f
Swedish: trombos c
Thai: ภาวะหลอดเลือดมีลิ่มเลือด (paa-wá lòt lêuat mee lîm lêuat)
Turkish: tromboz (tr)
Ukrainian: тромбо́з m (trombóz)
Uzbek:
Cyrillic: тромбоз (uz) (tromboz)
Roman: tromboz (uz)
Vietnamese: chứng nghẽn mạch
Welsh: tolcheniad m, thrombosis m