‖ crassamentum Phys.
(kræsəˈmɛntəm)
[L.; = thickness, thick sediment, dregs, f. crassāre to thicken, f. crassus crass a.]
† a. = prec. b. spec. The solid jelly-like part of coagulated blood, consisting of fibrin with blood-corpuscles entangled in it; the clot, coagulum.
| 1657 Physical Dict., Crassamen, or Crassamentum, wine-lees. 1730–6 Bailey (folio), Crassamentum (with some Anatomists) the cruor of blood, or that part which..forms the Coagulum, in opposition to the Serum in which it swims. 1783 S. Chapman in Med. Commun. I. 283 The crassamentum was rather loose in its texture. 1874 Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. 28 The quantity contained in the crassamentum is not much inferior to that in the serum. |