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A clot that forgot it was supposed to stay inside the body's repair shop.
means A blood clot that forms inside a vessel or the heart and stays there, potentially blocking blood flow.
from From Greek 'thrombos,' meaning a lump or clot (the same root curdles into 'thrombosis' and 'thrombocyte'). The Greeks used it simply for curdled or clotted matter — cheese curds included — before medicine narrowed it down to blood that's clotted somewhere it shouldn't.
- definition
- blood clot that forms inside a vessel, not from an injury
- vs embolus
- stays put; embolus is the one that travels and causes chaos
- danger zone
- can block blood flow, causing stroke or heart attack
- formation trio
- virchow's triad: stasis, vessel damage, hypercoagulability