medical Definition of atherothrombosis
plural atherothromboses
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: the formation of a blood clot within an artery as a result of atherosclerosis
- As with any drug used to prevent atherothrombosis, vascular events are frequent among patients treated with aspirin or other antiplatelet drugs, and this phenomenon is sometimes described as treatment failure.
- —Carlo Patrono et al., The New England Journal of Medicine, 1 Dec. 2005
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atherothrombotic
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- The use of aspirin is primarily for the primary and secondary prevention of atherothrombotic disease.
- —Kenneth A. Bauer, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 6 Apr. 2011
