coagulation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coagulation, from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem. Morphologically coagulate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊ.æɡjuːˈleɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊ.æɡjuˈleɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

coagulation (countable and uncountable, plural coagulations)

2. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size by any of several physical or chemical processes.

   the coagulation of proteins

3. The process by which blood forms solid clots.
4. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu).

Antonyms

• dissolution
• declumping
• peptization

Derived terms

• anticoagulation
• coagulase
• coagulational
• coagulation factor
• coagulation time
• cryocoagulation
• cyclocoagulation
• diathermocoagulation
• disseminated intravascular coagulation
• electrocoagulation
• haemocoagulation
• hemocoagulation
• heterocoagulation
• homocoagulation
• hypercoagulation
• hypocoagulation
• noncoagulation
• photocoagulation
• precoagulation
• procoagulation
• recoagulation
• thermocoagulation
• whole-blood coagulation time

Related terms

• coagulate

Translations

process of forming clots from blood

• Afrikaans: koagulasie
• Basque: koagulazio inan
• Bulgarian: съсирване n (sǎsirvane)
• Catalan: coagulació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝血 (zh) (níngxuè)

• Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c
• Dutch: stolling (nl) f, bloedstolling (nl) f, coagulatie (nl)
• Finnish: hyytyminen (fi)
• French: coagulation (fr) f
• Galician: coagulación (gl) f
• German: Hämostase f, Blutgerinnung f, Gerinnung (de) f
• Greek: πήξη (el) f (píxi)

  Ancient Greek: πῆξις f (pêxis)

• Hungarian: véralvadás (hu)
• Italian: coagulazione (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meyîn (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering m

  Nynorsk: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering f

• Persian: انعقاد (fa) (en'eqâd)
• Polish: koagulacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: coagulação (pt) f
• Romanian: coagulare (ro) f
• Russian: свёртывание (ru) n (svjórtyvanije)
• Slovak: zrážanie krvi, koagulácia
• Spanish: coagulación (es) f
• Swedish: koagulation (sv) c
• Tagalog: samuo
• Ukrainian: згортання n (zhortannja)

similar solidification

• Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c
• Dutch: stolling (nl) f
• German: Gerinnung (de) f
• Hungarian: alvadás (hu), kicsapodás, kicsapódás (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koagulasjon m, koagulering m

  Nynorsk: koagulasjon m, koagulering f

• Russian: сгуще́ние (ru) n (sguščénije)
• Slovak: zrážanie, koagulácia
• Swedish: koagulation (sv)

French

Pronunciation

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

coagulation f (plural coagulations)

1. coagulation

Further reading

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