How to Use thrombus in a Sentence

thrombus

noun
  • The clot, or thrombus, is made of fibrin, platelets, white blood cells and some red blood cells.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Current treatments for stroke patients often involve injectable drugs that dissolve a blockage in the blood vessel called a thrombus.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Today, doctors understand that a heart attack occurs when blood flow through an artery is blocked by a blood clot called a thrombus and oxygen cannot get to the heart muscle.
    — William Cornwell, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • In the 1960s and ’70s, however, doctors thought a thrombus was the result of – not the cause of – a heart attack.
    — William Cornwell, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • During an angioplasty, a procedure developed in the 1980s, heart doctors would place a balloon made of flexible polymers inside an artery to open up and clear the thrombus.
    — William Cornwell, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025
  • In 95 percent of test scenarios, the microrobot delivered the thrombus medication to the correct destination.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The medical examiner’s office concluded that the death in April of a woman in sheriff’s office custody was caused by a coronary thrombus, or blood clot, due to atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Aug. 2025

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