CLOTTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clotted mean? 

• CLOTTED (adjective)
  The adjective CLOTTED has 1 sense:

1. thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots)

  Familiarity information: CLOTTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOTTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots)

Synonyms:

clogged; clotted

Context example:

seeds clogged together

Similar:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

 Context examples 

On the path, too, and among the heather were dark stains of clotted blood.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A pool of clotted or partially clotted blood in an organ, tissue, or body space, usually caused by a broken blood vessel.

(Hematoma, NCI Dictionary)

Plasma glycoprotein clotted by thrombin, composed of a dimer of three non-identical pairs of polypeptide chains (alpha, beta, gamma) held together by disulfide bonds.

(Fibrinogen, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A localized collection of blood, usually clotted, in an organ, space, or tissue, due to a break in the wall of a blood vessel.

(Hematoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mass of clotted blood or other formed elements, such as bubbles of air, calcium fragments, etc. brought by the blood from another vessel and forced into a smaller one, thus obstructing the circulation.

(Embolus, NCI Thesaurus)

It was clear, however, that Straker had defended himself vigorously against his assailants, for in his right hand he held a small knife, which was clotted with blood up to the handle, while in his left he clasped a red and black silk cravat, which was recognised by the maid as having been worn on the preceding evening by the stranger who had visited the stables.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)