coagulation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

Borrowed from Middle French coagulation, from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem. Morphologically coagulate + -ion.

In each there is loss of continuity of the epidermis with coagulation necrosis of the tissues at the wound margins. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission
The huge pool of blood in front of her was already assuming the iridescence of coagulation; and when the sun rose a hundred prismatic hues were reflected from it. — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence death. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

curdling, clotting

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