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Also, when enough pulmonary artery blood flow is blocked by a clot or clots, the pressure in the pulmonary artery can build up more and more. Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024 Leftover blood pools in the atria, leading to clots and increasing the risk of stroke and heart failure.6 Atrial Flutter Atrial flutter occurs when the heart's electrical signals fire too fast, causing a rapid heart rate that can increase to over 300 BPM. Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
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His team wanted to compare the clotting risk of consumers who drank a liquid sweetened with erythritol or sugar. Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024 The rest is cellular matter, mainly platelets, essential for clotting after a cut or wound; white blood cells, to fight infection; and red blood cells, which not only give blood its tomato coloring, but also ferry oxygen-giving hemoglobin. Byandrew Zaleski, science.org, 3 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for clot 

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“Clot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clot. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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