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The body's panic button for leaks, until it forgets to turn itself off.
means A clump of blood (or other fluid) that has thickened from liquid into a semi-solid mass, usually to seal a wound.
from Clot comes from Old English 'clott,' meaning a lump or mass of something — it originally described any rounded clump, like a clod of earth, before narrowing in medical use to specifically mean coagulated blood. It's a cousin of 'clod' and possibly related to 'cleat' and 'clat,' all pointing to the same old Germanic idea of a thick, compacted lump.
- made of
- platelets and fibrin, nature's biological duct tape
- good version
- seals a cut before you bleed out
- bad version
- blocks arteries, causes strokes and heart attacks
- formation time
- starts sealing wounds within seconds