thrombosis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis, “curdling, clotting”); synchronically analyzable as thrombus + -osis.

noun

1. (pathology) The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
   The cure for thrombosis at the heart of London was to start work quickly on the new Victoria line. A high-level decision to proceed with this railway was urgently awaited 1962 August, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan modernisation completed”, in Modern Railways, page 87
   Blood-clotting platelets had surged like minnows to the site of injury, clumping together to form a thrombosis that blocked the artery, causing a heart attack and tissue death. 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, page 37