coagulo-, coagul-

A medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood.

In surgery, the coagulation of tissue by applying chemicals.

1. An agent that produces coagulation or which converts a fluid or a substance that is in a solution into a solid or gel.
2. An agent that causes, stimulates, or accelerates coagulation, especially with reference to blood.
3. Etymology: from Middle French coaguler, from Ltin coagulatus, past participle of coagulare, "to cause to curdle"; from cogere, "to curdle, to collect"; from com-, "together" + agere "to drive".

1. To convert a fluid or a substance that is in a solution into a solid or gel.
2. To clot; to curdle; to change from a liquid to a solid or gel.
3. Etymology: from Middle French coaguler, from Ltin coagulatus, past participle of coagulare, "to cause to curdle"; from cogere, "to curdle, to collect"; from com-, "together" + agere "to drive".

Disease affecting the coagulability of the blood.

A procedure that uses an electrical current to stop bleeding.

1. Condensation of protein material by the controlled use of an intense beam of light; used especially in the treatment of retinal detachment and the destruction of abnormal retinal vessels, or of intraocular tumor masses.
2. A technique using intense light energy, as from a laser, to produce scar tissue used in treating certain eye disorders, in medical and biological research, etc.

1. The process of converting tissue into a gel by heat.
2. Coagulation of tissue by the action of high-frequency currents; used in removal of growths and also used to produce stereotactic lesions in the brain.
3. Destruction and removal of tissue by coagulation utilizing high-frequency electric current.