coagulation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coagulation, from Latin coagulatio, coagulationem. Morphologically coagulate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

coagulation (countable and uncountable, plural coagulations)

2. The precipitation of suspended particles as they increase in size by any of several physical or chemical processes. (e.g. coagulation of proteins)
3. The process by which blood forms solid clots.
4. Similar solidification of other materials (e.g. of tofu).

Antonyms

• dissolution
• declumping
• peptization

Derived terms

• anticoagulation
• coagulation factor
• disseminated intravascular coagulation
• electrocoagulation
• hypercoagulation
• noncoagulation
• photocoagulation
• procoagulation
• thermocoagulation

 

Related terms

• coagulate

Translations

process of forming clots from blood

• Afrikaans: koagulasie
• Bulgarian: съсирване n (sǎsirvane)
• Catalan: coagulació f
• Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c
• Dutch: stolling (nl) f, bloedstolling (nl) f, coagulatie (nl)
• Finnish: hyytyminen
• French: coagulation (fr) f
• Galician: coagulación (gl) f
• German: Hämostase f, Blutgerinnung f, Gerinnung (de) f
• Hungarian: véralvadás (hu)
• Italian: coagulazione (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: meyîn (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering m

  Nynorsk: hemostase m, koagulasjon m, koagulering f

• Persian: انعقاد (fa) (en'eqâd)
• Polish: koagulacja f
• Portuguese: coagulação (pt) f
• Romanian: coagulare (ro) f
• Russian: свёртывание (ru) n (svjórtyvanije)
• Slovak: zrážanie krvi, koagulácia
• Spanish: coagulación (es) f
• Swedish: koagulation (sv) c
• Tagalog: samuo
• Ukrainian: згортання n (zhortannja)

similar solidification

• Danish: koagulering c, koagulation (da) c
• Dutch: stolling (nl) f
• German: Gerinnung (de) f
• Hungarian: alvadás (hu), kicsapodás, kicsapódás (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koagulasjon m, koagulering m

  Nynorsk: koagulasjon m, koagulering f

• Russian: сгуще́ние (ru) n (sguščénije)
• Slovak: zrážanie, koagulácia
• Swedish: koagulation (sv)

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

coagulation f (plural coagulations)

1. coagulation

Further reading

• “coagulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.