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thrombosis

[throm-boh-sis] / θrɒmˈboʊ sɪs /
NOUN
apoplexy
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Dr. Caron Rockman, chair of vascular surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, said that while it was possible for superficial clots to progress to deep vein thrombosis, it remains rare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama missed 30 games in 2025 due to a deep-vein thrombosis in his right shoulder.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Hurts has been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and a bilateral pulmonary emboli, the statement said, meaning a blood clot has traveled from his legs to his lungs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Her mother, 72-year-old Luz Marina, recently suffered a thrombosis, and her sister Sandra, 38, ended up in a wheelchair because of meningitis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

"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

Alan Alda, the Hawkeye Pierce of TV's long-running M*A*S*H, may provoke 100 and some thromboses as a result of the latest Alda-written, Alda-acted movie, The Seduction of Joe Tynan.

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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