noun. The act of changing from a fluid to a thickened curd-like state, well exemplified by the clotting of blood; the state of being coagulated.

noun. The change from a fluid to a solid state, as in crystallization.

noun. A mass or quantity of coagulated matter; a curd; a clot.

noun. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification.

noun. The substance or body formed by coagulation.

noun. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size (by any of several physical or chemical processes)

noun. The process by which blood forms solid clots.

noun. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu).

noun. the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

"The flurry of interest reflects increasing understanding of what doctors call the coagulation cascade, the system that causes clots to form to stop bleeding in the face of injury but can lead to heart attacks, strokes and clots in the legs or lungs when triggered by disease processes."

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coagulation of the blood  coagulation-necrosis  

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