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▪ I. clotting, vbl. n.|ˈklɒtɪŋ|
a. The action of the vb. clot, in various senses.
1601Holland Pliny xviii. xix. (R.), Land..which..needs the great harrowes and clotting. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Clotting, a West country method of catching eels with worsted thread. 1880J. W. Legg Bile 90 The clotting of the blood in the vessels. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Clotting, the sintering or semi-fusion of ores.
b. Comb., as clotting-beetle, † clotting-mall (-maule, -mell), a clod-mall; clotting time = coagulation time.
1483Cath. Angl. 68 A Clottyng malle, occatorium. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. ii. xv. (1668) 68 What clots you cannot break with your Harrows..you shall break with your clotting-beetle. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 138 Two or three men with clottinge melles to breake them small. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 314 Any large lumps remaining..should be broken with mallets, or clotting-beetles. 1908Trans. College Physicians Philadelphia XIII. 94 Currents of air affect the clotting time, which is accelerated by anything causing evaporation. 1964W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism ii. 17 One characteristic feature of anaphylaxis in the dog is an increase in the clotting time.
▸ clotting factor n. Physiol. any of a group of plasma proteins which are sequentially activated to form fibrin in the process of blood clotting; also called coagulation factor.
1916Biochem. Jrnl. 10 335 Neither of the other *clotting-factors can be made to clot such fibrinogen solutions when added separately. 1977Ann. Internal Med. 86 220/1 The anticoagulants, immunoglobulins directed against clotting factors, assume importance for invasive procedures. 1999J. D'Silva in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business xiii. 144 Production in the plasma of proteins such as clotting factors or erythropoietin even at modest concentrations could be harmful to the animal.
▪ II. ˈclotting, ppl. a.
[see -ing2.]
That clots.
1784E. Jerningham Alisia in Evans O. Ball. II. xliii. 255 To view the raven..Drink up the clotting blood. |