clot (klot)
currant jelly clot
1. coagulum; a semisolid mass, as of blood or lymph.
2. coagulate.
agony clot a type of antemortem clot formed in the process of dying.
antemortem clot one formed in the heart or in a large vessel before death but found after death.
blood clot a coagulum in the bloodstream formed of an aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets, and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements.
chicken fat clot a yellow-appearing blood clot, due to settling out of erythrocytes before clotting.
currant jelly clot a reddish clot, due to the presence of erythrocytes enmeshed in it.
laminated clot a blood clot formed by successive deposits, giving it a layered appearance.
passive clot one formed in the sac of an aneurysm through which the blood has stopped circulating.
plastic clot one formed from the intima of an artery at the point of ligation, forming a permanent obstruction of the artery.
postmortem clot one formed in the heart or in a large blood vessel after death.
cur·rant jelly clot (kûr  nt)n. A jellylike mass of red blood cells and fibrin formed by the in vitro or postmortem clotting of whole or sedimented blood. |
currant jelly clot
[kur′ənt]
Etymology: ME, corauns + L, gelare, to congeal; AS, clott
a red, jellylike blood clot that is rich in hemoglobin from erythrocytes in the clot.
Currant Jelly Clot
A red-black, gelatinous and non-adherent coagulum composed of red cells and scattered white cells—which have been fancifully likened to red currant jelly (US)/jam (UK). This clot is a type of postmortem intravascular blood clot that develops more rapidly than the slowly sedimenting chicken fat clot
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