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thrombus

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ˈθrɒmbəs/
  • General-American: /ˈθrɑmbəs/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: hematology, medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: clot, coagulum

History

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin thrombus, from the Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”); compare thrombo-.

Across languages

Translations

36 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خُثْرَة (ḵuṯra) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Arabic: جُلْطَة (julṭa) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Catalan: trombe — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Chinese Mandarin: 血栓 (xuèshuān) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Czech: trombus — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Czech: krevní sraženina — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Danish: blodprop — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Dutch: trombose — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Esperanto: trombo — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Finnish: veritulppa — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • French: thrombus — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • German: Thrombus — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • German: Blutgerinnsel — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Greek: θρόμβος (thrómvos) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Greenlandic: aagiak — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Hungarian: vérrög — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Icelandic: blóðkökkur — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Ido: trombuso — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Indonesian: trombus — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Italian: trombosi — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Japanese: 血栓 (kessen) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Kazakh: қантығын (qantyğyn) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Māori: poketoto — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Navajo: dił diyilii — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Norwegian Bokmål: blodpropp — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: blodpropp — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Persian: لخته (laxte) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Polish: zakrzep — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Portuguese: trombo — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Romanian: trombus — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Romanian: cheag de sânge — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Russian: тромб (tromb) — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Spanish: coágulo — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Spanish: trombo — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Swedish: tromb — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis
  • Swedish: blodpropp — blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis