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clot

 [klot]
1. a semisolidified mass, as of blood or lymph; called also coagulum.
2. coagulate. See also clotting.
blood clot a coagulum in the blood stream formed of an aggregation of blood factors, primarily platelets, and fibrin with entrapment of cellular elements; see also thrombus. Some authorities differentiate thrombus formation from simple coagulation or clot formation. Called also cruor.

cru·or

(krū'ōr),
Coagulated blood.
[L. blood (that flows from a wound)]

cruor

[kro̅o̅′ôr]
Etymology: L, blood
a blood clot containing erythrocytes.

cruor

a blood clot.
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It is sanguis and cruor, for Latin shares with other Indo-European languages a distinction between inside blood (in some sense, life) and outside blood or bloodshed.
Hence I have argued that body and blood were different kinds of symbols and that blood was doubly dual: twofold historically as eucharist and relic, twofold symbolically as sanguis and cruor, life and death.
The blood of Christ in the later Middle Ages (1)
A partial parallel in Ovid composes a more extravagant colour-rich tableau which combines the blood and tellus of Furius' fragment 1 with the colours of this fragment: `expulit ipse cruor, rubefactaque sanguine tellus # purpureum viridi genuit de caespite florem' (Met.
The fragments of Furius Antias
Saepe super uoltus uictoris et impia signa aut cruor aut alto defluxit ab aethere tabes membraque deiecit iam lassis unguibus ales.
Reflexiones en torno al uso del lexico de la victoria en la Farsalia de Lucano *

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