Word: clotting
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...Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
...Stars Grow. One of the things which astronomers worry about is why most of the matter in the universe is clotted into widely separated stars. Why did it clot in the first place? And are the clots (stars) still forming out of shattered matter? At Madison, Dr. Lyman Spitzer of Yale told his theory...
...grains of matter are present, said Dr. Spitzer, the gas molecules collide with them. This reduces the molecules' velocity (the same thing as their temperature). Then they adhere to the grains, making them bigger. Eventually the grains get big enough to attract one another by gravitation. The little clot grows to a bigger clot. In a billion years or so, a star is born...
...days in a regular cycle, the colony moves its bivouac every night. Toward dusk one of the raiding columns loses its martial excitement, slows its pace. Then the raiders fall into a steady, plodding lockstep. At the far end of the column, up to 200 yards long, they clot together in a tight, solid mass. The news of the move spreads back to the previous bivouac. As raiders come in from forays in other directions, they turn and follow the plodding column...
...brains of victims of this creeping apoplexy are found, after death, to be covered with hundreds of "infarcts" where a tiny blood clot has choked off the surrounding tissues. (As an old lady once told Alvarez: "Death takes little bites.") Symptoms: overnight the victim ages quickly, becomes querulous, may lose his self-respect, may deteriorate morally...