coagulation

co·ag·u·late

 (kō-ăg′yə-lāt′)

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: As it cooled, the sauce began to coagulate.

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[Middle English coagulaten, from Latin coāgulāre, coāgulāt-, from coāgulum, coagulator; see coagulum.]

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co·ag′u·la·bil′i·ty n.

co·ag′u·la·ble, co·ag′u·la′tive (-lā′tĭv, -lə-tĭv) adj.

co·ag′u·la′tion n.

co·ag′u·la′tor n.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

coagulation

1. The grouping together of small particles in a solution into larger particles. Such a solution eventually coagulates with the particles forming either a precipitate or a gel.

2. blood clotting

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

coagulation - the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid clotting, curdling blood clotting, blood coagulation - a process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot) natural action, natural process, action, activity - a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" thermocoagulation - congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current)

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Translations

coagulation

coagulazione

коагулированиекоагуляциякоагуляторный

coagulation

[kəʊˌægjʊˈleɪʃən] N → coagulación f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

coagulation

[kəʊˌægjʊˈleɪʃ^ən] n → coagulation f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

coagulation

n (of blood) → Gerinnen nt, → Gerinnung f, → Koagulation f (spec); (of milk) → Dickwerden nt; (of jelly) → Festwerden nt; (of paint) → Eindicken nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

coagulation

[kəʊˌægjʊˈleɪʃ/ən] n → coagulazione f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

co·ag·u·la·tion

n. coagulación, coágulo; cambio en la sangre de estado líquido a solido;

disseminated intravascular ___ → ___ intravascular diseminada;

___ factor → factor de ___.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

coagulation

n coagulación f; disseminated intravascular — (DIC) coagulación intravascular diseminada

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