thrombus

thrombus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin thrombus, from the Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”); compare thrombo-.

Noun

thrombus (plural thrombi)

1. (hematology, pathology) A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.

Synonyms

• blood clot

Derived terms

• intrathrombus
• thrombectomy
• thrombocyte
• thrombose
• thrombosis
• thrombosupressive

 

Translations

blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis

Arabic: خُثْرَة‎ f (ḵuṯra), جُلْطَة‎ f (julṭa) Catalan: trombe (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 血栓 (zh) (xuèshuān) Czech: trombus m, krevní sraženina f Danish: blodprop c Dutch: trombose (nl) f Esperanto: trombo Finnish: veritulppa (fi) French: thrombus (fr) m German: Thrombus (de) m Greek: θρόμβος (el) m (thrómvos) Greenlandic: aagiak Hungarian: vérrög (hu) Icelandic: blóðkökkur m Ido: trombuso (io) Italian: trombosi (it) f Japanese: 血栓 (ja) (けっせん, kessen) Kazakh: қантығын (qantyğyn) Maori: poketoto Navajo: dił diyilii Norwegian: Bokmål: blodpropp m Nynorsk: blodpropp m Persian: لخته‎ (fa) (laxte) Polish: zakrzep (pl) m Portuguese: trombo m Romanian: trombus (ro), cheag de sânge n Russian: тромб (ru) m (tromb) Spanish: coágulo (es) m, trombo (es) m Swedish: blodpropp (sv) c

See also

• embolus

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.bys/

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Noun

thrombus m (plural thrombus)

1. thrombus

Further reading

• “thrombus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.