coagulative, a.
(kəʊˈægjʊlətɪv)
[f. L. coagulat- ppl. stem of coagulāre (see prec.) + -ive.]
1. Having the property of producing coagulation.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 152 These doe auaile..to extinguish feauers..by their coagulatiue vertue. a 1691 Boyle Wks. I. 423 (R.) A salt..which seemed to have in it a coagulative power, in reference to common water. |
2. Having the property of coagulating (intr.); inclined to coagulate or ‘set’. coagulative necrosis = coagulation necrosis.
| 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 614 The fire..from Cold and Coagulative, changes it into Caustique and Resolutive. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xvi. 547 The Glandulous humour..falls into a coagulative disposition with the Serum. 1886 London Med. Rec. XIV. 323/1 In the change called coagulative necrosis, the death of the cells is easily proved by their incapacity for function. 1957 S. L. Robbins Textbk. Path. viii. 191/1 The characteristic cytologic change of all infarcts is ischemic coagulative necrosis of the affected cells. |