Path. [mod.L., a. Gr. θρόμβος lump, piece, clot of blood, curd of milk.] † a. A small tumor occasioned by the escape of blood from a vein into the adjacent cellular tissue, and its coagulation there. Obs. b. A fibrinous clot that forms in a blood-vessel and obstructs the circulation.
Milk thrombus, a tumor caused by accumulation of milk in the ducts during lactation (Funk’s Standard Dict., 1895).
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Thrombus, the Coagulation of Blood or Milk into Clots or Clusters.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Thrombus.… Among Surgeons a small Swelling that arises after the Operation of Bloud-letting, when the Orifice is made too small.
1866. A. Flint, Princ. Med. (1880), 28. A coagulum formed during life in the heart or in the vessels is called a thrombus.
1873. Ralfe, Phys. Chem., 16. A thrombus blocks up a cerebral artery, and acute softening of the cerebral substance supplied by that artery is the result.
1901. Osler, Princ. & Pract. Med., i. 12. Inflammation of the arteries with thrombus formation has been frequently described in typhoid fever.
