thrombus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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, Blutgerinnsel (de) n
• Greek: θρόμβος (el) m (thrómvos)
• Greenlandic: aagiak
• Hungarian: vérrög (hu)
• Icelandic: blóðkökkur m
• Ido: trombuso (io)
• Italian: trombosi (it) f
• Japanese: 血栓 (ja) (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 (pt) m
• Romanian: trombus (ro), cheag de sânge n
• Russian: тромб (ru) m (tromb)
• Spanish: coágulo (es) m, trombo (es) m
• Swedish: tromb (sv) c, blodpropp (sv) c

See also

• embolus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.bys/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

thrombus m (invariable)

1. thrombus

Further reading

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