Look up: coagulation

1. coagulation
   change to a thick and solid state 
   Found on http://www.graduateshotline.com/list.htm
   
   
2. Coagulation
   Coagulation and coalescence are both words that are used to describe what happens when small particles in a dispersion combine together to form large ones. One example is what happens to milk (a nice disperse emulsion) if it is leftat the back of the fridge too long. Coagulation is used when the par...
   Found on http://www.kcpc.usyd.edu.au/discovery/gl
   
   
3. Coagulation
   Clumping of particles in wastewater to settle out impurities, often induced by chemicals such as lime, alum, and iron salts.
   Found on http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms/
   
   
4. Coagulation
   a process that alters the surface charge on dispersed colloidal particles in a liquid so that they are able to agglomerate; the first stage in floc formation
   Found on http://www.oasisenviro.co.uk/Glossary%20
   
   
5. Coagulation
   Process of blood clotting by converting from liquid to semi-fluid.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib
   
   
6. Coagulation
   the clumping of particles in order to settle out impurities; often induced by chemicals such as lime or alum.
   Found on http://www.chemicalglossary.net/definiti
   
   
7. Coagulation
   a process that plays a large role in the hardening and thickening of blood to form a clot
   Found on http://www.medichecks.com/glossary.cfm?l
   
   
8. coagulation
   A clotting mechanism of the blood
   Found on http://www.generalandmedical.com/glossar
   
   
9. Coagulation
   Coagulation: In medicine, the clotting of blood. The process by which the blood clots to form solid masses, or clots. More than 30 types of cells and substances in blood affect clotting. The process is initiated by blood platelets. Platelets produce a substance that combines with calcium ions in the...
   Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.
   
   
10. coagulation
    Clotting of the blood,the normal process of stopping bleeding Category: Management in the public and private sector • destabilization of undissolved and colloidally dispersed matter to allow aggregation, usually by addition of coagulants (chemicals added to destabilize suspensions or emulsions) [VE1] Category: Environment
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
    
    
11. Coagulation
    Co·ag`u·la'tion noun [ Latin coagulatio .] 1. The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; th...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/98
    
    
12. coagulation
    1. <haematology> The process of clot formation. ... 2. <chemistry> The solidification of a sol into a gelatinous mass, an alteration of a disperse phase or of a dissolved solid which causes the separation of the system into a liquid phase and an insoluble mass called the clot or curd. Co...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
    
    
13. coagulation
    (ko-ag″u-la´shәn) clotting. in surgery, the disruption of tissue by physical means to form an amorphous residuum, as in electrocoagulation or hotocoagulation. in colloid chemistry, solidification of a sol into a gelatinous mass. blood coagulation cl...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001
    
    
14. Coagulation
    • (n.) The substance or body formed by coagulation. • (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
15. coagulation
    (from the article `dairy product`) The coagulation of milk is an irreversible change of its protein from a soluble or dispersed state to an agglomerated or precipitated condition. Its ... ...out readily, but smaller and lighter particles settle very slowly or in some cases do not settle at all. Because of this, the sedimentation step .....
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/101
    
    
16. coagulation
    in physiology, the process by which a blood clot is formed. The formation of a clot prevents blood loss from a ruptured blood vessel. Under abnormal ... [16 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/101
    
    
17. coagulation
    (L. coagulatio) 1. the process of clot formation. 2. in colloid chemistry, the solidification of a sol into a gelatinous mass; an alteration of a disperse phase or of a dissolved solid which causes the separation of the system into a liquid phase and an insoluble mass called the clot or curd. Coagulation is usually irreversible. 3. in surgery, t...
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/
    
    
18. coagulation
    coagulation 1. The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid. 2. In medicine, the clotting of blood or the process by which the blood clots to form solid masses. Tissue can also be subjected to coagulation by various means, as by electrocoagulation (coagulation [clotting] of tissue using a hi...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf
    
    
19. coagulation
    Type: Term Pronunciation: kō′ag-yū-lā′shŭn Definitions: 1. Clotting; the process of changing from a liquid to a solid, said especially of blood (blood coagulation). In vertebrates, blood coagulation is a result of cascade regulation from fibrin. 2. A clot or coagulum....
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio
    
    
20. COAGULATION
    blood clotting
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21166
    
    
21. coagulation
    coagulation (kōăg"yOOlā'shun) , the collecting into a mass of minute particles of a solid dispersed throughout a liquid (a sol), usually followed by the precipitation or separation of the solid mass from the liquid. The casein in milk is coagulated (curdled) by the addition...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08126
    
    
22. Coagulation
    Coagulation is the changing of a fluid into a, more or less solid substance, or the separation of a substance from a solution, through the substance becoming more or less solid. Thus albumen of egg can be dissolved in cold water, but if the solution be warmed, the albumen undergoes a change, separat...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow
    
    
23. COAGULATION
    Blood clotting.
    Found on http://www.thehorse.com/Glossary.xhtml?L
    
    
24. Coagulation
    What happens when milk solidifies and curds form.
    Found on http://www.dairygoodness.ca/cheese/chees
    
    
25. coagulation
    n. formation of a blood clot
    Found on http://www.avru.org/reference/reference_