blood clot
noun
: a thick and sticky clump of dried blood that stops blood from flowing through a blood vessel in a person or an animal
She had a blood clot in her lungs.
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Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
About three weeks postpartum, what seemed like a routine urinary tract infection escalated into a blood clot in her uterus, requiring an emergency dilation and curettage (D&C).
—Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
Each chatbot correctly diagnosed a blood clot in the lungs.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Just weeks after turning in an early rough draft, that blood clot near my heart stopped me cold in my tracks.
—Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Blood clot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20clot. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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