COAGULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coagulation mean? 

• COAGULATION (noun)
  The noun COAGULATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

  Familiarity information: COAGULATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COAGULATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

clotting; coagulation; curdling

Hypernyms ("coagulation" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coagulation"):

blood clotting; blood coagulation (a process in which liquid blood is changed into a semisolid mass (a blood clot))

thermocoagulation (congealing tissue by heat (as by electric current))

Derivation:

coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state)

coagulate (cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state)

 Context examples 

EDTA, a metal chelator, exerts its anticoagulant activity by binding to calcium, thereby impeding the activity of calcium-dependent coagulation proteins.

(minocycline-EDTA, NCI Thesaurus)

Events or activities that prevent or inhibit coagulation.

(Negative Regulation of Coagulation, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the modulation of vascular smooth muscle relaxation, VEGF-induced angiogenesis and blood coagulation.

(Nitric Oxide Synthase, Endothelial, NCI Thesaurus)

This NSAID does not inhibit COX-1 at therapeutic concentrations and, therefore, does not interfere with blood coagulation.

(Parecoxib, NCI Thesaurus)

It also plays a role in blood coagulation and in many enzymatic processes.

(Calcium Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

Bivalirudin reversibly binds thrombin, free as well as clot bound, at the catalytic site and the anion-binding exosite, thereby preventing the formation and activation of fibrin, factor XIIIa, and other coagulation factors.

(Bivalirudin, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in cellular motility, proliferation, blood coagulation, and glycogenolysis.

(AVPR1A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This project focuses on capillary-based paper microfluidics to fill the need for ultra-low-cost blood coagulation diagnostics.

(Engineers create a simple test that can measure stress, National Science Foundation)

Orthologous to human thrombin, batroxobin activates soluble fibrinogen into fibrin and facilitates blood coagulation, thereby can be used in substitution of thrombin in quantitative thrombin time test.

(Batroxobin, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a measurement of the intrinsic pathway of coagulation.

(Partial Thromboplastin Time, NCI Thesaurus)