VENOUS THROMBOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venous thrombosis mean? 

• VENOUS THROMBOSIS (noun)
  The noun VENOUS THROMBOSIS has 1 sense:

1. thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood

  Familiarity information: VENOUS THROMBOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENOUS THROMBOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thrombosis of a vein without prior inflammation of the vein; associated with sluggish blood flow (as in prolonged bedrest or pregnancy or surgery) or with rapid coagulation of the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

phlebothrombosis; venous thrombosis

Hypernyms ("venous thrombosis" is a kind of...):

thrombosis (the formation or presence of a thrombus (a clot of coagulated blood attached at the site of its formation) in a blood vessel)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

gestation; maternity; pregnancy (the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus)

 Context examples 

It may lead to venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

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A syndrome associated with a variety of diseases, notably systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases, thrombopenia, and arterial or venous thromboses, marked by the presence of antibodies directed against phospholipids.

(Antiphospholipid Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)