thrombosed
A blood test is performed in the laboratory to diagnose thrombosis.
He gave the cause of death as coronary thrombosis.
Arterial and venous thromboses can occur in a number of organs.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
acidosis
acquired agammaglobulinemia
adult-onset diabetes
afib
agammaglobulinemia
anaemic
clot-busting
coarctation of the aorta
congenital erythropoietic porphyria
congestive heart failure
coronary heart disease
decompression sickness
furred
haemophiliac
MEN1 syndrome
MGUS
mini-stroke
mitral
monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance
toxaemia

Examples of thrombosis

thrombosis
Thrombosis within dilated arteries may then lead to myocardial infarction.
It is not meaningful to conduct extensive investigations of patients with venous thrombosis to find possible underlying cancer.
The thrombosis necessitated valve replacement surgery with a porcine bioprosthesis at 22 weeks gestation.
Accumulating epidemiological evidence implicates thrombosis, as well as inflammation, as important factors in the development and causation of cerebral palsy.
The four major categories of cerebrovascular disease are atherosclerotic thrombosis, cerebral embolism, lacunae and intracranial hemorrhage.
This patient, therefore, had sudden death due to acute myocardial infarction, secondary to thrombosis of the coronary arterial aneurysms.
Histological sections were also searched for the presence of thrombosis, inflammatory infiltrate and storage diseases.
Venous thrombosis can be prevented to some extent, mainly by treatment with anticoagulants (blood thinning agents) in conjunction with surgical intervention.
We did not use thrombosis promoting methods, such as soaking the device in topical thrombin, to encourage rapid complete occlusion.
Once a panarteritis has developed, thrombosis and occlusion of the lumen is almost inevitable.
Even if asymptomatic thrombosis is excluded however, the incidence of symptomatic thrombosis and thromboembolism was high, at 5%.
Predisposition to spontaneous thrombosis of the pulmonary vasculature might be a real possibility.
The greatest excess over 'expected' mortality was for the group diagnosed as 'coronary thrombosis and other arteriosclerotic and degenerative heart diseases'.
In major orthopedic surgery without preventive treatment, the risk for venous thrombosis is 40% to 70%.
Analyses which take changes in contraceptive practices into account are preferable for examining acute unexpected illnesses such as venous thrombosis or stroke.
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