coagulation

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊ.æɡjuːˈleɪʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊ.æɡjuˈleɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

coagulation (countable and uncountable, plural coagulations)

2. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size by any of several physical or chemical processes. (e.g. coagulation of proteins)
3. The process by which blood forms solid clots.
4. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu).

Antonyms

• dissolution
• declumping
• peptization

Derived terms

• anticoagulation
• coagulase
• coagulational
• coagulation factor
• coagulation time
• cryocoagulation
• cyclocoagulation
• diathermocoagulation
• disseminated intravascular coagulation
• electrocoagulation
• haemocoagulation
• hemocoagulation
• heterocoagulation
• homocoagulation
• hypercoagulation
• hypocoagulation
• noncoagulation
• photocoagulation
• precoagulation
• procoagulation
• recoagulation
• thermocoagulation
• whole-blood coagulation time

Related terms

• coagulate

Translations

process of forming clots from blood

Afrikaans: koagulasie Basque: koagulazio inan Bulgarian: съсирване n (sǎsirvane) Catalan: coagulació f Chinese: Mandarin: 凝血 (zh) (níngxuè) Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c Dutch: stolling (nl) f, bloedstolling (nl) f, coagulatie (nl) Finnish: hyytyminen (fi) French: coagulation (fr) f Galician: coagulación (gl) f German: Hämostase f, Blutgerinnung f, Gerinnung (de) f Greek: πήξη (el) f (píxi) Ancient Greek: πῆξις f (pêxis) Hungarian: véralvadás (hu) Italian: coagulazione (it) f Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: meyîn (ku) Norwegian: Bokmål: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering m Nynorsk: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering f Persian: انعقاد (fa) (en'eqâd) Polish: koagulacja (pl) f Portuguese: coagulação (pt) f Romanian: coagulare (ro) f Russian: свёртывание (ru) n (svjórtyvanije) Slovak: zrážanie krvi, koagulácia Spanish: coagulación (es) f Swedish: koagulation (sv) c Tagalog: samuo Ukrainian: згортання n (zhortannja)

similar solidification

Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c Dutch: stolling (nl) f German: Gerinnung (de) f Hungarian: alvadás (hu), kicsapodás, kicsapódás (hu) Norwegian: Bokmål: koagulasjon m, koagulering m Nynorsk: koagulasjon m, koagulering f Russian: сгуще́ние (ru) n (sguščénije) Slovak: zrážanie, koagulácia Swedish: koagulation (sv)

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French

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Noun

coagulation f (plural coagulations)

1. coagulation

Further reading

• “coagulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.