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Coagulable

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co·ag·u·late  (k-gy-lt)
v. co·ag·u·lat·ed, co·ag·u·lat·ing, co·ag·u·lates
v.tr.
To cause transformation of (a liquid or sol, for example) into or as if into a soft, semisolid, or solid mass.
v.intr.
To become coagulated.

[Middle English coagulaten, from Latin cogulre, cogult-, from cogulum, coagulator; see coagulum.]

co·agu·la·bili·ty n.
co·agu·la·ble, co·agu·lative (-ltv, -l-tv) adj.
co·agu·lation n.
co·agu·lator n.
Synonyms: coagulate, clot, congeal, curdle, jell, jelly, set1
These verbs mean to change or be changed from a liquid into a thickened mass: egg white coagulating when heated; blood clotting over the wound; gravy congealing as it cools; milk that had curdled; used pectin to jell the jam; jellied consommé; allowed the aspic to set.
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Adj.1.coagulable - capable of coagulating and becoming thick
thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"


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7) Fibrinogen can be quantitated by various methods including precipitation or denaturation methods, turbidimetric or fibrin clot density method, coagulable protein assays, as well as immunologic assays, which utilize antibodies to fibrinogen in assays, such as radial immunodiffusion, measurement of turbidity or rocket immunoelectrophoresis and the modified thrombin clotting time, which is the most widely performed clinical fibrinogen assay.
John King, a 34-year-old sailor, represented the first of the remarkable series of patients compiled by Bright and was a "well-marked example of granulated condition of the kidneys connected with the secretion of coagulable urine.
An English physiologist, William Hewson (1739-1774) of Hexham, Northumberland, England, showed that when the coagulation of [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] the blood is delayed, a coagulable plasma can be separated from the corpuscles and skimmed off the surface.
 
 
 
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