thrombosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis, “curdling, clotting”). By surface analysis, thrombus +‎ -osis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θɹɒmˈbəʊsɪs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /θɹɑmˈboʊsɪs/

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• Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
• Hyphenation: throm‧bo‧sis

Noun

thrombosis (countable and uncountable, plural thromboses)

1. (pathology) The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
   • 1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan modernisation completed”, in Modern Railways, page 87:

     The cure for thrombosis at the heart of London was to start work quickly on the new Victoria line. A high-level decision to proceed with this railway was urgently awaited

   • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 37:

     Blood-clotting platelets had surged like minnows to the site of injury, clumping together to form a thrombosis that blocked the artery, causing a heart attack and tissue death.

Derived terms

• coronary thrombosis
• deep vein thrombosis
• hyperthrombosis
• immunothrombosis
• macrothrombosis
• microthrombosis
• photothrombosis
• rethrombosis
• thrombotic
• thrombus

 

Translations

formation of thrombi in the blood vessels, causing obstruction of the circulation

• Arabic: خُثار (khuthar)
• Basque: tronbosi
• Bavarian: Trombosn, Thrombose f
• Belarusian: трамбоз m (trambóz)
• Bulgarian: тромбоза f (tromboza)
• Catalan: trombosi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血栓形成 (zh) (xuèshuān xíngchéng or xiěshuān xíngchéng)

• Czech: trombóza (cs) f
• Danish: trombose c
• Dutch: trombose (nl) f
• Esperanto: trombozo
• Finnish: tromboosi (fi), veritulppa (fi)
• French: thrombose (fr) f
• Galician: trombose (gl) f
• German: Thrombose (de) f
• Greek: θρόμβωση (el) f (thrómvosi)
• Hebrew: פַּקֶּקֶת (he) f (pakeket)
• Hindi: घनास्रता f (ghanāsratā)
• Hungarian: trombózis (hu)
• Icelandic: segamyndun
• Ido: tromboso (io)
• Indonesian: trombosis (id)
• Irish: trombóis f
• Italian: trombosi (it) f
• Japanese: 血栓症 (ja) (けっせんしょう, kessenshō)
• Kannada: ಕರಣೆಗಟ್ಟಿಕೆ (kn) (karaṇegaṭṭike), ಹೆಪ್ಪುಗಂಟಿಕೆ (kn) (heppugaṇṭike), ಕರಣೆಗಂಟಿಕೆ (kn) (karaṇegaṇṭike)
• Kazakh: қан ұюы (qan ūüy)
• Korean: 혈전증 (hyeoljeonjeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xwîntîrî (ku), xwînmeyîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тромбоз (tromboz)
• Latvian: tromboze f
• Lithuanian: trombozė f
• Luxembourgish: Thrombos f
• Macedonian: тромбоза f (tromboza)
• Malayalam: ത്രോംബോസിസ് (ml) (trōmbōsisŭ)
• Manx: clabbid cuishlin, clabbid folley
• Norman: coup d'sang m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trombose m

  Nynorsk: trombose m

• Occitan: trombòsi f
• Polish: zakrzepica (pl) f
• Portuguese: trombose f
• Romanian: tromboză (ro) f
• Russian: тромбо́з (ru) m (trombóz)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleiteachd-fhala f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тромбо́за f

  Roman: trombóza (sh) f

• Slovak: trombóza (sk) f
• Slovene: tromboza f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tromboza f

  Upper Sorbian: tromboza f

• Spanish: trombosis (es) f
• Swedish: trombos c
• Thai: ภาวะหลอดเลือดมีลิ่มเลือด (paa-wá lòt lêuat mee lîm lêuat)
• Turkish: tromboz (tr)
• Ukrainian: тромбо́з m (trombóz)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: тромбоз (uz) (tromboz)

  Roman: tromboz (uz)

• Vietnamese: chứng nghẽn mạch
• Welsh: tolcheniad m, thrombosis m

See also

• embolism