thrombus

English

Etymology

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

Noun

thrombus (plural thrombi)

(hematology, pathology) 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.

Synonyms

blood clot

Derived terms

Translations

blood clot formed in blood vessels that leads to thrombosis

Arabic: خُثْرَة‎ f (ḵuṯra), جُلْطَة‎ f (julṭa)
Catalan: trombe (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血栓 (zh) (xuèshuān)
Czech: trombus m, krevní sraženina f
Danish: blodprop c
Dutch: trombose (nl) f
Finnish: veritulppa (fi)
French: thrombus (fr) m
German: Thrombus m
Greek: θρόμβος (el) m (thrómvos)
Greenlandic: aagiak
Hungarian: vérrög (hu)
Icelandic: blóðkökkur m
Ido: trombuso (io)

Italian: trombosi (it) f
Japanese: 血栓 (ja) (けっせん, kessen)
Maori: poketoto
Navajo: dił diyilii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blodpropp m

Nynorsk: blodpropp m
Persian: لخته‎ (fa) (laxte)
Polish: zakrzep (pl) m
Portuguese: trombo m
Romanian: trombus (ro), cheag de sânge n
Russian: тромб (ru) m (tromb)
Spanish: coágulo (es) m, trombo (es) m
Swedish: blodpropp c

See also

embolus

French

Noun

thrombus m (plural thrombus)

thrombus

Further reading

“thrombus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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