Word: thrombus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critical Hours. The most critical is the period for first the few victim hours of a after the coronary blood attack clot (thrombus) has formed in a coronary artery, cutting off the blood supply to one section of the heart muscle. If the patient is moved too soon after such an attack he may die of any one of a variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage...
...impede, or even stop, the passage of blood through the artery in which the condition exists. As the volume and surge of the blood decrease, a clot may form, often quite suddenly, around one of the rough projections that has grown on the arterial wall. The clot is a thrombus, the process of its formation is thrombosis, and if it happens in one of the coronary arteries, it is coronary thrombosis (while there are medical distinctions in their precise use, the terms "coronary occlusion" and "cardiac infarction" are generally synonymous with "coronary thrombosis...
...stuck by his claims through all the minute cross-examination of yesterday and today, reversing himself on only one point. Ford admitted this morning that if the hypodermic neodie had entered Mrs. Borroto's vein, he "didn't believe the air would stop at the thrombus"--the blood clot that dammed the upper part of the vein...