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thrombosis

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /
NOUN
apoplexy
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He missed a chunk of last season treating a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis and the Spurs didn’t overreact.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Wembanyama returned to the court after a lengthy layoff last season caused by deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.

From Barron's Nov. 17, 2025

A calf issue - later diagnosed as deep vein thrombosis - then denied 2022's fastest man the chance to compete for a world medal.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2025

The action star said that she had been unaware of the prevalence among pregnant women of cerebral venous thrombosis, or CVT, which is the development of a blood clot in the brain.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 30, 2024

"Coronary thrombosis," the intern diagnosed, "but that's just an educated guess. In simple language: heart attack."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

He had previously overcome cancer, a heart attack and two thromboses.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2024

The U.S. move is warranted, says Gowthami Arepally, a hematologist at the Duke University School of Medicine, given that the constellation of symptoms, cerebral venous sinus thromboses and low platelet counts, is very unusual.

From Science Magazine Apr. 13, 2021

Stravinsky is 87 and in precarious health; Craft writes painfully and graphically about the old man's gastric ulcers and thromboses.

From Time Magazine Archive

A second diagnostic advance comes from use of radiopaque dyes, which are injected into arteries leading to the brain: X rays help to locate obstructions to circulation resulting from thromboses and especially aneurysms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fibrin is liberated, and thromboses occur, especially in the liver.

From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson




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