COAGULUM (coagula)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: coagula   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does coagulum mean? 

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

1. a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COAGULUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lump of material formed from the content of a liquid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

clot; coagulum

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

ball; chunk; clod; clump; glob; lump (a compact mass)

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

thrombus (a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin)

embolus (an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood)

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 

This allele, which encodes prostate-specific antigen protein, plays a role in the liquefaction of seminal coagulum via hydrolysis of semenogelin-1.

(KLK3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the hydrolysis of high molecular mass seminal vesicle protein, resulting in the liquefaction of seminal coagulum.

(KLK3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)