Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thrombus \Throm"bus\, n.; pl. Thrombi. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a lump,
a clot of blood.] (Med.)
(a) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and
remaining at the site of coagulation.
(b) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the
subcutaneous cellular tissue.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
thrombus
n 1: a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining
attached to its place of origin