sludged blood

sludged blood
sludged blood n blood in which the red blood cells become massed along the walls of the blood vessels and reduce the lumen of the vessels and the rate of blood flow

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blood in which the red cells have become aggregated into masses; see intravascular agglutination, under agglutination.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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