thromboses
thromboses is the plural of thrombosis.
thromboses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of thrombose.
Meaning of thrombosis
Noun
thrombosis (countable and uncountable, plural thromboses)
- The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
- “Humbert Humbert,” their author, had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC
Meaning of thrombose
Verb
thrombose (third-person singular simple present thromboses, present participle thrombosing, simple past and past participle thrombosed)
- To affect with, or be affected by, thrombosis.
Questions about thromboses
- What is thromboses the plural of?
- Thromboses is the plural of thrombosis.
Words near thromboses in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thromboses (page history and authors); thrombosis (page history and authors); thrombose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-thromboses.wav.
Cite this entry: “thromboses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/thromboses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.